Yesterday, mass graves began to be uncovered in Syria as Syrians celebrated throughout the country the fall of the Assad regime. One mass grave unearthed in the Al-Hussainiya area in the Damascus countryside has been reported to have around 75,000 bodies. Most of the bodies in the grave were buried between 2012 and 2016 with up to 400 bodies buried every day during its most intensive period.
The bodies are said to be primarily those of political prisoners who were detained in the regime’s prisons and were tortured and killed in horrific ways, including bodies of inmates from the Sednaya slaughterhouse.
Eyewitnesses have said that bodies were transported in refrigerators, buried and covered with dirt with the process repeated adding multiple layers to the grave. Other eyewitnesses have said that they were told to dig large holes in the ground as part of the construction of a barracks. Later on bodies were also burnt to save space.
Syrians are appealing for international organisations to visit, record and monitor the sites to document the crimes and atrocities of the Assad regime.
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