Former detainees and defectors have identified the locations, agencies responsible, torture methods used, and, in many cases, the commanders in charge of 27 detention facilities run by Syrian intelligence agencies, Human Rights Watch said in a multimedia report released today. The systematic patterns of ill-treatment and torture that Human Rights Watch documented clearly point to a state policy of torture and ill-treatment and therefore constitute a crime against humanity.
Technically, this isn't siding with us because we aren't actually fighting Assad's forces.
But if we do carry out an R2P intervention against Assad, with this pro forma condemnation out of the way, Human Rights Watch can get on to the real work of condemning our minor errors--that we correct and punish--as crimes against humanity.
I'm guessing Syrian dissidents dream of just being humiliated in naked human pyramids.
