WASHINGTON, D.C.: US lawmakers saw graphic images of the brutal conflict in Syria on Thursday (Friday in Manila) as an army defector gave an eyewitness account of the horrors he was forced to photograph.

“I am not a politician and I don’t like politics . . . and neither am I a lawyer,” said the former Syrian military police photographer who escaped from his homeland last year, bringing with him some 55,000 pictures taken as part of his job to catalogue the dead.

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