GOOD LORD: Thousands of Syrians Killed in Mass Hangings, Amnesty International Claims.

Syrian authorities have killed as many as 13,000 people—possibly more—since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as “the slaughterhouse,” Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

In a new report covering the period from 2011 to 2015, Amnesty said 20 to 50 people were hanged each week at Saydnaya Prison in killings authorized by senior Syrian officials, including deputies of President Bashar al-Assad, and carried out by military police.

The report referred to the killings as a “calculated campaign of extrajudicial execution.”

Atrocities like these are why it may prove impossible to put Syria back together.