Over 150,000 Dead: The Mass Graves Of Syria 🇸🇾
It is one thing to read about the mass graves in Syria 🇸🇾, but it is another thing to watch the testimonies from people forced to bury the bodies of men, women & children whose only “crime” was helping other Syrians suffering under a brutal dictatorship.
[Mouaz Moustafa, the head of the U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization, the Syrian Emergency Task Force,] told ABC News from the Syrian capital that the site in al-Qutayfah close to Damascus consists of “massive graves” where “lines or trenches were 6 to 7 meters deep, 3 to 4 meters wide and 50 to 150 meters long.”
“In my conversation with the gravediggers, they told me that four tractor trailer trucks each carrying over 150 bodies came twice a week from 2012 until 2018,” Moustafa said.
“The bulldozer excavator driver described how intelligence officers forced workers to use the bulldozer to flatten and compress the bodies to make them fit and easier to bury before digging the next line or trench,” he added.
The graves contained men, women, children and the elderly “tortured to death” by Assad's regime, Moustafa said. (ABC News)
The Syrian Emergency Task Force is attempting to identify the bodies via DNA 🧬 testing, which will help provide much needed closure for families still searching for loved ones.
For those with extra cash to spare, you can donate to the Syrian Emergency Task Force on Donor Box. This video below explains more about the Syrian Emergency Task Force from Moustafa.
Note: The video below (provided for extra context) displays only a fraction of some of the people slaughtered by the Assad regime, & despite being (thankfully) blurred out, it is not for the faint of heart.
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