Statement By SASC Chairman John McCain on Amnesty International's Report on Syrian Government's Mass Executions

U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on Amnesty International's new report titled, Human slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya prison:

"The appalling revelations that the Assad regime has hanged more than 13,000 Syrians at a secret prison in a murderous campaign to crush all political dissent should outrage people of conscience everywhere. What is so sickening about Assad's war crimes and crimes against humanity at Saydnaya prison is not that they are shocking, but that they are such predictable atrocities. From chemical weapons to barrel bombs to a simple noose, Assad will resort to any form of butchery he believes necessary to preserve his dictatorship. After five years and 400,000 Syrians killed, it is time for the international community to abandon the absurd fiction of a political solution that leaves Assad in power. The Syrian people will not accept as their leader a man who has inflicted such savagery upon them. Bashar Assad does not belong in a palace in Damascus. He belongs in a jail cell in The Hague."

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