Mouaz Moustafa reported that at the mass grave in Al Qutayfah (40 km from Damascus) there are bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the overthrown government of president Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with Reuter's agency, he said it was 1 of 5 mass graves that were identified over the years.
One 100 1000 is the most careful assessment The head of SETF has reserved it.
Former American war crimes ambassador, Stephen Rapp, after visiting 2 mass graves in the cities of Kutajfa and Najha, close Damascus, there is besides no uncertainty about the number of victims buried.
We surely have over 100,000 people who have been lost and tortured to death in this machine. I don't have much uncertainty about that kind of numbers, given what we saw in those mass graves. – forwarded to the agency.
Executions of prisoners
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civilian War in 2011, government forces have killed hundreds of thousands of people, like Reuters. Syrians accuse both Bashar al-Assad and his father, erstwhile president Hafiz al-Assad, of tolerating extrajudicial executions, including group executions in prisons.
Mustafa added that Syrian aviation was liable for receiving bodies of tortured people during torture from military hospitals and handing them over for burial in mass graves. The corpses were transported, among others, by the capital ceremony office, whose personnel unloaded them from the cold store.
One of the places where work is presently underway is the mass grave on the Baghdad Bridge area, located about 30 km from Damascus.
They deserve to know
As the Lebanese portal L’Orient Le Jour recalled on Tuesday, in 2023 activists alerted that from 2022 to 2023, at the orders of the Syrian regime, a levelwork was carried out in the areas of mass graves, which could have destroyed crucial evidence of the crime. In 2022, SETF accused the authorities of burning bodies thrown into mass graves to cover up the tracks and prevent the families from knowing their fate.
We urgently request to safe this place, exhume the mass grave, let global authorities unlimited access to this area so that they can do this work carefully, carefully and well – said Hiba Zayadin of Human Rights Watch Human Rights Group and added – Families deserve to know what happened here.
A twelve years of war led to massive displacement of the population in Syria, food shortages, infrastructure collapses, economical collapses and illness spreads. About 16.7 million people urgently request help. The further escalation of Lebanon's war effort made the situation worse and forced more than 560,000 people to flee from conflict to Syria.
