“We are not saying that Assad has to go,” US special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey says adding that instead Washington wants to see “a dramatic shift in the behaviour of this regime”
James Jeffrey, US State Department special representative for Syria Engagement, listens to his aide before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on President Trump's decision to remove US forces from Syria, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, October 23, 2019.
Instead, Jeffrey said, Washington wants to see "a dramatic shift in the behaviour of this regime as we have seen seldom in the world." He referenced in particular the major overhaul of the Japanese government following its defeat in World War II. The act is named after a Syrian military photographer who leaked tens of thousands of gruesome images that showed 11,000 victims systematically tortured to death by the government. The photographs showed evidence of starvation, beating, strangulation, and other forms of torture.
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