Codename Caesar

Every day I heard the voices of the victims crying out their pain to tell what happens in the prisons. No one was there to witness it, no one answered them. These dead have imposed on me the responsibility to bear witness to their suffering, before their families, humanity, and the free world. Never before has the brutal nature of the Assad regime been revealed so clearly as in this book. "Caesar" - as he is known by his alias - was a photographer for the Syrian military police. For two years, after the uprising against Assad began, he had to photograph the victims of the regime: the corpses of opposition members who had been brutally tortured to death. He smuggled around 50,000 of these photos out of the country when he fled Syria in 2013. Garance Le Caisne is the only journalist who managed to locate him and speak with him. From Caesar's accounts.