Syria
has categorically rejected Washington's accusation that Damascus has
constructed a prison-based crematorium to burn the bodies of
thousands of alleged executed detainees, saying the "unfounded"
claim is in fact a new "Hollywood" story made to further
interfere in the internal affairs of the Arab country.
"As it is habitual of
successive US administrations to fabricate lies and allegations to
justify their aggressive and interventionist policies in other
sovereign countries, what came out from the current US administration
is just a new Hollywood screenplay disconnected from reality,"
said the Syrian Foreign Ministry in a statement carried by the
official SANA news agency on Tuesday.
The ministry's response came a day
after the US Department of State, citing the US intelligence
community and some "credible" humanitarian agencies,
accused the Syrian government of cremating the bodies of inmates
killed in "extrajudicial" executions in the Saydnaya
military prison, located some 30 kilometers north of the capital
Damascus, in order to "cover up the extent of mass murders
taking place" in the detention facility.
It also distributed a satellite
photo, dated April 2017, which allegedly shows the Saydnaya complex,
naming some parts of it, including a "probable crematorium."
Syria has in the past strongly
denied any abuse at Saydnaya. Earlier this year, Damascus dismissed
as baseless a report by Amnesty International about mass hanging at
the prison.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry, while
strongly condemning the accusation, further said that such
allegations were "totally unfounded."
"They are nothing but the
product of the imagination of this administration and its agents,"
it added.
The ministry also said that the
new accusation was in line with previous baseless allegations that
Washington leveled against the Syrian government, including Damascus'
alleged use of "explosive barrels" and "chemical
weapons" against the opposition in the Arab country.
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