HORRIFIC images of Syrian "war-crime" victims have emerged, showing the "systemic killing" of about 11,000 Syrian detainees at the hands of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Syrian torture photos reveal 'systemic killing' of detainees

The sickening photographs of emaciated corpses, strangle wounds, cuts, bruising and signs of electrocution reveal evidence of the torture and murder of an estimated 11,000 prisoners.
Lawyers acting for the Arab state of Qatar claim to have the dossier of 55,000 images out of Syria, according to British media reports.

This image was found in the dossier of the photos allegedly smuggled out of Syria by a miltary policeman. Source: Supplied

This horrifying image released by the Syrian National Movement allegedly shows the emaciated bodies of two torture victims.

The allegations, contained in a 31-page report released to coincide with the Geneva II talks, were described as a "smoking gun" that could see Syrian officials charged with war crimes. It comes just 24 hours after President Assad insisted he had no intention of quitting and the issue was not up for discussion in Geneva.
CNN claims the evidence came from a military policeman known only as "Caesar" who worked secretly with a Syrian opposition group. The file contains graphic images of victims, many of whom appear emaciated, blood-stained and subjected to torture.
Furiously divided from the start, representatives of Assad and the rebellion against him threatened on Wednesday to collapse the peace conference intended to lead them out of civil war.

US Secretary of State John Kerry talks to Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon walks past at the peace talks in Montreux. Source: AFP

Assad's future in the country devastated by three years of bloodshed was at the heart of the sparring, which took place against a pristine Alpine backdrop as Syrian forces and rebel fighters clashed across a wide area from Aleppo and Idlib in the north to Daraa in the south.US and UN officials said merely getting the two sides in the same room was something of a victory, but UN chief Ban Ki-moon's claim that the discussions were "harmonious and constructive'' was at odds with the testy exchange when he tried to get the podium from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem.
"You live in New York. I live in Syria,'' Moallem angrily told Ban. "I have the right to give the Syrian version here in this forum. After three years of suffering, this is my right.''

A Free Syrian Army fighter comforts a child wounded by artillery shelling at Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo. Source: AP

With little common ground, the two sides were to meet separately Thursday with a UN negotiator, Lakhdar Brahimi, who said he still did not know if they were ready to sit at the same table when talks begin in earnest on Friday. But, Brahimi said, both sides had shown some willingness to bend on local ceasefires and delivery of humanitarian aid, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said they were also working on possible terms for a prisoner exchange.

Free Syrian Army fighters clean their weapons at their base on the outskirts of Aleppo. Source: AP

The Western-backed opposition said Assad's departure was their starting point, echoing the position laid out by US Secretary of State John Kerry."The resolution cannot be about one man's - or one family's - insistence on clinging to power,'' Kerry said.
The response from the government delegation was firm and blunt.
"There will be no transfer of power, and President Bashar Assad is staying,'' Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi told reporters.
The two sides seemed impossibly far apart in opening statements in the Swiss city of Montreux. The waterfront road was barricaded by roadblocks and hundreds of security forces, with boats patrolling the shores of Lake Geneva day and night.
The small-town venue was chosen in haste when a watchmakers' convention left Geneva hotels booked. That made for some potentially awkward encounters - some of the opposition were staying in the same hotel as the Syrian government delegates, as were the Americans.
Complicating matters, Assad's delegates and the Western-backed opposition Syrian National Coalition both claimed to speak for the Syrian people. But the coalition has little sway with rebel brigades, who largely oppose talks with the government. And the government, Kerry said, has no legitimacy or loyalty among people devastated by war.
Overshadowing the conference was Ban's last-minute decision to invite - and then disinvite - Iran, which has funneled billions of dollars and Shiite fighters to Assad. Syria's civil war has become a proxy battle for regional dominance between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which funds many of the Islamist rebel movements and which Assad accuses of supporting al-Qaida-inspired militants streaming into Syria.