ASSAD'S HORROR ...THE RECKONING

War crime probe to be ‘bigger than Nuremberg' as torture jail uncovered

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG

DISCARDED shoes lie in a Syrian prison described as a human slaughterhouse, in a flashback to some of humanity's darkest hours.

As experts begin counting the human toll of Bashar al-Assad's regime, one warned that a probe will be bigger than the Nuremberg trials of Nazis in the wake of the Second World War.

And Sednaya prison in Damascus, where people have gathered seeking news of their long-disappeared loved ones, contains further grim parallels.

Along with piles of clothes and shoes left behind by Assad's victims, there are bone saws, crush tables and other torture devices.