A list of 29,000 people who were executed by Assad’s prison murderers has reportedly been discovered in his human slaughterhouse jail.
Syrian rebels discovered what is being dubbed the Book of Death as they ransacked the infamous Sednaya prison, where tortured bodies and piles of old cloths were also found.
Sick footage captured the group unearthing the thick folder in which a devastating 29,000 names of dead prisoners were counted as they were tracked over the course of a few years.
At least 10 rebels gathered around the book in disbelief as they flicked through the pages, with hundreds of names littered across each page.
In the horror clip, one man talks through the shocking discovery, which also included a stash of other various documents that Assad’s military did not manage to destroy.
The Syrian man continues to explain how the group plan on using ‘every single name’ from the book to find the families of the deceased and reach out to them to inform them of the tragic news of their loved ones.
The rebel stressed: ‘Gather them, preserve them, keep them safe and deliver them’.
In a heart-wrenching moment, he then goes on to read aloud the names, birth dates, and what grisly method was used to execute the individuals listed within the vile discovery.
Syrian rebels discovered what is being dubbed the Book of Death as they ransacked the infamous Sednaya prison in Damascus
The book included a staggering 29,000 names of people who have died in the prison
At least 10 rebels gathered around the book in disbelief as they flicked through the pages, with hundreds of names littered across each page
An aerial view of the Sednaya Military Prison after armed groups, opposing Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime take control in Damascus
He even points out how ‘field executions’ are documented in the book before pressing on to tell his fellow rebels to be careful not to tear or destroy the papers.
‘People, we must contribute to preserving these properties.
‘The regime broke the cameras and destroyed the hard drives – so that these crimes wouldn’t be exposed,’ he says defiantly.
Syrian rebels are continuing their investigations into Sednaya prison after the release of several long-lost family members after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.
The infamous prison near Damascus, nicknamed the ‘Human Slaughterhouse’, is the epicentre of a systematic terror where huge numbers of detainees were subjected to all manner of inhumane treatments and executed.
Dark footage and images published this week showed how horrified rescuers pulled out dozens upon dozens of body bags containing rotting corpses from the depths of the facility.
For most detainees, the horror began immediately upon arrest, often with savage beatings en-route to detention facilities.
Prisoners endured brutal ‘welcome parties,’ where they were thrashed with hoses, silicone bars, and wooden sticks.
Survivors have described being suspended by their wrists for hours, enduring electric shocks, and being burned with cigarettes, in horrific accounts given to the New York Times and Amnesty International.
Once trapped behind bars, prisoners quickly became acquainted with all manner of novel torture methods – some so notorious they had been given dark monikers.
One such grotesque device nicknamed the ‘flying carpet’ saw prisoners shackled to a board strapped onto a flexible board split in half by chain metal hinges.
The rebel even points out how ‘field executions’ are documented in the book before pressing on to tell his fellow rebels to be careful not to tear or destroy the papers
Syrian rebels are continuing their investigations into Sednaya prison after the release of several long-lost family members after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad
People are seen at the Sednaya Military Prison after armed groups, opposing Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime take control in Damascus
Guards would then lift the bottom half of the board and fold the prisoner’s legs back toward them, slowly and excruciatingly crushing them into horrific positions.
Another such torture tactic was called the ‘dulab’, in which victims’ bodies were contorted into a rubber tyre, their heads pressed into their knees, before being rolled around and beaten mercilessly.
Assad previously denied both killing thousands of detainees at Sednaya as well as using a secret crematorium to dispose of their remains in 2017.
Many detainees have revealed they were raped while imprisoned, and in some cases, forced to rape other inmates.
Torture and severe beatings from guards were used as a regular form of punishment and degradation, often leading individuals to life-long damage, disability, and even death.
Cell floors were covered with the blood and pus from injured prisoners, according to a 2017 Amnesty report, with the corpses of dead detainees collected by prison guards at 9am each morning.
Detainees at Sednaya Prison were forced to obey a set of sadistic and dehumanising rules, as staff deprived inmates of food, water, medicine and medical care.
When food was delivered, it was often scattered over the cell floors by guards where it mixed with blood and dirt, forcing detainees to ingest the gruesome bodily fluids left behind by those wounded and killed.
It was also reported an iron press that was allegedly used to crush and execute prisoners in Sednaya Prison was found in new videos shared by rebels as they liberated inmates.
Human Rights Watch identified 27 detention centres that it said intelligence agencies had been using since Assad’s government began a crackdown in March 2011 on pro-democracy protesters trying to oust him.
