Mass grave in Syria found with over 100,000 bodies severely tortured
Syrian emergency worker: ‘100,000 is a very, very extremely, almost unfairly conservative estimate.’
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
A US-based Syrian advocacy organization reported the discovery of a mass grave containing 100,000 bodies of people who were killed by the Assad regime, many of them severely tortured.
Mouaz Moustafa, head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, told Reuters that this was one of five mass graves he had seen.
This one is located at al Qutayfah, 25 miles (40 km) north of the Syrian capital.
“One hundred thousand is the most conservative estimate” of the number of bodies buried at the site, said Moustafa.
“It’s a very, very extremely, almost unfairly conservative estimate.”
Moustafa said that he believes that there are most likely more than the 5 mass grave sites already known.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed after Bashar al-Assad cracked down on attempts in 2011 to revolt.
Syrians accused Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez, who died in 2000, of massive extrajudicial killings, torture, and mass slaughter.
