And while Assad allies Russian Federation and Iran may not have had anything to do with the crematorium, they are complicit in the brutal dictator's many other atrocities, according to the U.S. Trump has previously lambasted the nuclear deal with Iran and supported calls for additional sanctions over the country's ballistic missile program.
Jones presented the evidence just a week after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Washington to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues, including the conflict in Syria.
The U.S. State Department accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime Monday of conducting mass executions and trying to hide these executions by burning the bodies, according to The Associated Press.
An Amnesty International report, titled "Human Slaughterhouse", detailed the conditions behind these numbers, describing a setting where many detainees "have been killed after being repeatedly tortured and systematically deprived of food, water, medicine and medical care". He said that they believe numerous detainees are hanged, and then their bodies are burned in a crematorium.
"We're not going to signal what we're going to do and what we're not going to do", Jones said, but he added that the United States would "bring evidence forward to the worldwide community". "Although the regime's many atrocities are well documented, we believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison", he continued. But Sednaya holds as many as 70 prisoners in cells that are designed for a 5-person capacity.
The timing of the public announcement suggested that the Trump administration was pressing a tougher political line on Syria, and seeking to embarrass Russian Federation and Iran - which have supported the Assad government - in an effort to press the Syrian leadership to engage in substantive negotiations. "The (Assad) regime must stop all attacks on civilian and opposition forces". Jones clarified that they had not shared this information with the Russians nor does he claim that Russia or Iran is directly involved.
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The U.S. State Department in Washington DC informed reporters in a special, detailed briefing Monday that the Syrian regime has built a crematorium outside the capital city of Damascus. "The road to Syria's freedom runs through Geneva", he said.
Heather Nauert, the new State Department spokeswoman, in her first time at the podium, said "Tillerson was firm and clear with Minister Lavrov, Russia holds tremendous influence over Bashar al-Assad, a key point that took place in that meeting was telling Russia to use its power to reign in the regime".
Those whose names are called out were told they would be transferred to civilian prisons in Syria. "Whether or not it will work, I have no idea".
The Trump administration hit a Syrian air base with a missile strike last month in retaliation for the regime's deadly chemical attack in Idlib province - a unilateral strike that prompted a skirmish of words between US and Russian officials.
"We have seen Trump speak in multiple interviews about the imagery of children being killed with chemical weapons being very powerful on him", Stein said. "Can [Assad] go at the end of negotiations, or does he have to go as a precursor to negotiations".
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