At least 100,000 bodies in Syrian mass grave, US advocacy group head says

Mass graves expose Assad regime’s ‘machinery of death’

“We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,” says an international war crimes prosecutor who estimates 100,000 people were killed.

Alleged Syrian Mass Graves Reveal Atrocities Comparable to Nazi Era, Prosecutor Claims.

A former U.S. war crimes ambassador has claimed that mass graves have been discovered in Syria, alleging at least 100,000 people were tortured and killed by the former al-Assad regime. Stephen Rapp, former U.S. war crimes ambassador, described the situation as a “system of state terror.” The graves, uncovered by Syrian Civil Defense teams, known as the White Helmets, reportedly contained remains showing signs of widespread torture and death.Over…

One of Assad’s mass graves is found, with as many as 100,000 bodies

But justice for the victims of the Assad regime will be slow | Middle East & Africa

Syria rescuers find bodies in warehouse

A Syrian civil defence official said Wednesday that White Helmets rescuers discovered unidentified bodies and remains in a medicine warehouse in a Damascus suburb, 10 days after Bashar al-Assad's ouster.An AFP video journalist at the scene said the warehouse strewn with medicine boxes was located just around 50 metres from the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a...

At least 100 000 bodies in Syrian mass grave, US advocacy group head says

The bodies could only be identified by numbers etched on their chests, a man known as "The Gravedigger" told a German court in 2020.