Syrian regime secuirty used to bury opposition detainees in the courtyards, an eye-witness told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday.
The former female detainee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said I saw with my cell mates members of the notorious Palestine intelligence department burring tortured-to-death detainees in the courtyard of the headquarters south of Damascus.
''During the detention I never dared to speak up or to tell anybody over fears of reprisals and inevitable death,'' the woman said.
The fate of Syrian detainees came to surfce on Monday when the U.S. said its satellite images showed melting snow on a rooftop and heavy-duty ventilation systems attached to the military complex, apparently supporting claims by rights groups that Saydnaya is an execution center.
Thousands of prisoners are held at the military-run complex, 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Damascus and it is one of Syria's largest detention centres.
Amnesty International has accused Syria's government of carrying out a "policy of extermination" there by repeatedly torturing detainees and withholding food, water and medical care.
In February, it said Syria's government had killed up to 13,000 people over five years in gruesome weekly hangings.
Syria's opposition has long called for the release of all prisoners held by the regime, a demand they made again as they met UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura in Geneva this week, AFP reported.
De Mistura has said a deal on detainees was "almost finalised" without giving details.
A US State Department official has reported that a crematorium has been built at the prison which could be used to dispose of the bodies of victims of the regime. That would leave identities impossible to identify, lives vanished into the void, and more families endlessly searching for the disappeared. International justice investigators, if ever they went to Saydnaya, would struggle to establish the facts. Dispose of the remains, and no one will ever track you down – or so the regime hopes, accoring to the Guardian
