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.
After years of work to expose mass graves, Moustafa told CNN he’s finally been able visit suspected sites after Assad’s fall.
On Monday, reports emerged of more than 20 bodies found in a mass grave north of Izraa in Daraa governorate, southern Syria.
Bodies identified by numbersIn 2020, a man known as “the Gravedigger” told a German court he was recruited by the Assad regime to bury hundreds of bodies in mass graves, according to the ICMP.
SETF’s Moustafa said he is aware of at least eight mass grave sites in Syria.
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