Clinton School open house to feature photos from Syrian war

The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service is holding an open house for people to view photographs of Syria.

The exhibition, which includes graphic content, is 3-5 p.m. Sunday at Sturgis Hall, the school said, adding that officials encouraged viewers to be 18 years or older. The photo exhibit -- done in conjunction with the U.S. Holocaust Museum -- are those a police photographer with an alias of "Caesar" who smuggled more than 50,000 pictures out of Syria in August 2013.

In 2011, Syrian insurgents began an uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime, but the conflict has since evolved into a struggle among national, regional and international groups. It has cost more than 400,000 lives, displaced more than 11 million people and included atrocities and crimes against humanity, according to a news release from the school.

The photographs, most of which were taken in the country's military hospitals, show corpses, some of which have clear signs of torture. Western officials have said the pictures are evidence of war crimes.

Admission is free and open to the public. The Clinton School is on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton. Ave. in Little Rock. Sturgius Hall is the former Choctaw Railway station building.

The Clinton School held a panel discussion earlier this month featuring Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador for global criminal justice; Jim Hooper, former managing director of the Public International Law and Policy Group; and Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force.

An archived video of the panel discussion is available at http://tinyurl.com/syrianphotos.

Metro on 01/21/2017

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