The head of a US-based Syrian advocacy organisation on Monday said that a mass grave outside Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.

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After visiting sites close to Syria's capital Damascus, Stephen Rapp, who led prosecutors for the tribunals investigating war crimes in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, said "we really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis." The Syrian Emergency Taskforce, a humanitarian and activist organisation, estimates half a million bodies could be buried in mass graves.
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The head of a U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.

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Syrians are starting to uncover mass graves across the country, shedding light on the magnitude of atrocities committed during the brutal rule of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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By Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Syrians are starting to uncover mass graves across the country, shedding light on the magnitude of atrocities committed during the brutal rule of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. More than two weeks after Assad fled Syria and his regime collapsed, scores of Syrian families still have no answer about what happened to their loved ones following their detention by Assad’s secret police. Hundreds of thousands of bodies o…

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By Irene Nasser, CNN Syrians have begun unearthing mass graves across the country, shedding light on the scale of atrocities committed during the brutal rule of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. More than two weeks after Assad fled Syria and his regime collapsed, dozens of Syrian families still don’t know what happened to their loved ones after they were detained by Assad’s secret police. Hundreds of thousands of bodies of people “tortured to dea…

Por Irene Nasser, CNN Los habitantes de Siria empezaron a desenterrar fosas comunes en todo el país, arrojando luz sobre la magnitud de las atrocidades cometidas durante el brutal gobierno del derrocado dictador Bashar al-Assad. Más de dos semanas después de que Assad huyera de Siria y su régimen se derrumbara, decenas de familias sirias siguen sin saber qué ocurrió con sus seres queridos tras ser detenidos por la policía secreta de Assad. Cient…

Cientos de miles de cuerpos podrían estar enterrados en fosas comunes sirias, según un grupo de defensa civil

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The bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by ousted President Bashar al-Assad's regime are feared to be in a mass grave found outside Damascus, according to the head of a US-based Syrian advocacy group.

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Syrian mass grave is largest uncovered since Stalin era as 100,000 bodies were discarded outside Damascus: Advocacy group

A HARROWING timelapse has exposed the devastating transformation of a once-unremarkable site near Damascus into one of Syria’s largest mass graves. It was at the site in Al-Qutayfah where tens of thousands of bodies are believed to have been buried under Bashar al-Assad’s barbaric regime.   GettyThe Syrian Civil Defense conduct a work at a separate mass grave in Adra[/caption]
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