his parents. there are burn marks over his body, scars, signs of beatings, genitals are mutilated. this is a 13-year-old boy, taken off the streets, held for over a month, defiled, and dumped on his justify fibly and terrorizes family. i want you to hear what bashar al assad said when asked by abc s news s barbara wallers about hamza. a portion of the interview airing today on good morning america . you have seen these pictures, have you not? no, but i is this news to you? no, no, it s not news. i met with his father, with the father of that child. and he said that he wasn t tortured. he s saying in so many words, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? a pathologist attributed this to ordinary decomposition, as if decomposition leaves burns and scars and castration. as for assad s claim that hamza s father told him that his son hasn t been tortured, what would you say when a dictator who commands an army of torturers asks you that? according to al-j