ISTANBUL
New photographs and videos of 220 dead civilians, including women and children, being thrown into the Queiq River by the Syrian regime have been released.
Anadolu Agency (AA), which last week published photographs documenting war crimes by the Assad regime, received the new photos on Tuesday.
The dead bodies were taken out of the river under the supervision of the Aleppo-based Syrian Justice Institute, and photographed and identified one by one.
The institute said that 220 dead bodies have been recovered from January 29 and March 15.
The Syrian Justice Institute's forensic experts recovered and cleaned the bodies in order for identification purposes, and to preserve their physical condition, the institute said.
However, 35 of the bodies recovered from the Queiq River, also known as the Aleppo River, were unable to be identified.
40 bodies were found 20 km of southern Aleppo, by local residents.
AA has only published two of the images, along with a very short video, due to the inappropriate nature of the footage.
On January 20, AA published a report, accompanied by photographs, titled "Syria War Crimes," which resounded across the globe. The 55,000 photographs of 11,000 bodies were taken over a two year period, allegedly by a former Assad regime officer.
AA has agreed to share the new photographs and videos with a UN-related Investigation Commission.
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