Security Council sees images of Syrian dead

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council fell silent Tuesday after ambassadors viewed a series of photographs of dead Syrian civil war victims, France's ambassador said. The pictures showed people who were emaciated, with their bones protruding, and some bearing the marks of strangulation and repeated beatings, and eyes having been gouged out.

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