ALBAWABA - In an interview with Reuters on Monday, the director of a US-based Syrian advocacy organization Syrian Emergency Task Force, stated that a mass grave outside of Damascus has been discovered, containing at least 100 thousand bodies.
During the telephone call with Reuters, Mouaz Moustafa said that this mass grave was among five other mass graves discovered across Damascus over the years.
According to Moustafa, he is certain that there are more mass graves than the five locations, and that in addition to Syrians, other foreigners, including Americans and British citizens, were also killed and buried at these locations.
These discoveries are surfacing as Syrians ousted Bashar Assad on December 8, putting an end to the ruling of the Assad family over Syria for over 50+ years.
Human Rights Watch said on Monday that the status of a mass grave in Damascus, as well as testimony from residents living nearby, indicate that the location is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of numerous extrajudicial killings.
On December 11 and 12, 2024, a Human Rights Watch team visited the site in the southern Damascus district of Tadamon, where scores of human remains were discovered at the scene of an April 2013 massacre as well as across the surrounding area.
HRW encouraged Syrian authorities to take immediate action to secure and preserve physical evidence of major international crimes committed by former government officials throughout the country.
