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Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed since 2011, when the suppression of citizen protests against the policies of dictator Bashar al-Assad escalated into war.
This was reported by Reuters.
The head of the human rights organization Muaz Mustafa identified five mass graves. He noted that the bodies were delivered from hospitals after torture.
He stressed that 100,000 is “the most conservative estimate” of the number of bodies that were found at the burial site.
Moustafa, head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, stated that “one hundred thousand is the most conservative estimate” of the number of bodies buried at the site, emphasizing that it is “a very, very extremely almost unfairly conservative estimate.”
He expressed confidence that there are more mass graves beyond the five identified sites and noted that, in addition to Syrians, the victims include U.S., British citizens, and other foreigners.
Syrians, human rights groups, and various governments accuse President Bashar al-Assad and his late father, Hafez al-Assad, of widespread extrajudicial killings, including mass executions within Syria’s notorious prison system. Assad has repeatedly denied allegations of human rights abuses, dismissing his critics as extremists.
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