Horrific photos of Syrian torture haunt New Yorkers in powerful United Nations exhibition (Warning: Graphic Photos)

The horrors of Syrian torture and violence was brought into New York for American's to see. Staged at the New York United Nations headquarters, an exhibition of 25 horrific and gruesome pictures are on display this week.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Those attending the exhibition are faced with pictures of everything from eye gouging to starvation and mutilations.

"As the conflict in Syria enters its fifth year, the number of those killed and displaced has reached 220,000 and 7.6million, and over 3.8million have been forced to flee the country," Mark Lyall Grant, Britain's UN Ambassador said to Daily Mail. "We hope that this exhibition will serve as a reminder of the imperative to pursue a political solution to the conflict with utmost urgency to end the suffering of the Syrian people."

As a plan sponsored by the US, Britain, France, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, the photo exhibition of war-torn Syria is to "bring awareness of the human rights abuses President Bashar al-Assad's troops have been accused of committing against the Syrian people."

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According to the Daily Mail, the photos were from a collection of 55,000 smuggled out of Syria by a former military police photographer from September 2011 to August 2013.

Identified by code name "Caesar," the photographer worked at a military hospital, taking photos of bodies from three different centers in the Damascus area.

"Anyone who has seen the images will never forget them," expressed US Secretary of State, John Kerry. "Maimed bodies, people with their eyes gouged out, emaciated prisoners. It defies anybody's sense of humanity."

This powerful presentation comes as an international rights group announced more than 600 medical workers have been killed during Syria's civil war; "President Bashar Assad's government is responsible for 88 per cent of the recorded attacks on hospitals and 97 percent of the killings of medical workers," according to the Daily Mail.

139 of the deaths were directly the outcome of torture and execution.

According to the UN representative of the Syrian National Coalition, Najib Ghadbian, when he saw the brutal photos for the first time, he cried.

Although the photos were viewed by the UN Security Council last April and action against it was attempted, Russia and China both vetoed the bid to take the "situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the civil war."

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