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STORY: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Switzerland on Tuesday evening (January 21) for peace talks on Syria that few believe can succeed, as a 3-year-old civil war and geopolitical acrimony it brings show no sign of abating.

Opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, pressured to attend Wednesday's (January 22) first direct negotiations by their Western backers, cited new, photographic evidence of widespread torture and killing by Syria's government in renewing their demand that Assad must quit and face an international war crimes trial.

War crimes lawyers said a vast, smuggled cache of images from a Syrian military police photographer gave clear evidence of systematic abuse and murder of about 11,000 detainees. One of three former international war crimes prosecutors who signed the report compared the images from Syria with the "industrial-scale killing" of Nazi death camps.

The delegation from Damascus, led by Assad's