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Mass grave near Damascus may contain up to 100,000 bodies, says Syrian advocacy group

Mass grave near Damascus may contain up to 100,000 bodies, says Syrian advocacy group

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Multiple sources report the discovery of a mass grave at al Qutayfah, approximately 40 kilometers north of Damascus. The site is believed to contain the remains of at least 100,000 people, with one source providing the conservative estimate. The victims are thought to be individuals killed by the ousted Bashar Assad regime, with some sources suggesting that they were tortured to death.

Ahmed al-Sharaa
Hayat Tahrir Al Sham
1. We won't give up on delivering the justice our people expect and we will not let the atrocities committed against our people be forgotten.
Mouaz Moustafa
Syrian Emergency Task Force
1. We were able to talk to the people who worked on these mass graves that had on their own escaped Syria or that we helped to escape.
2. 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/trench.
3. It's a very, very extremely almost unfairly conservative estimate.
Ugur Umit Ungor
University Of Amsterdam
1. The true scale of exactly how many mass graves are out there is only to be found in the archives of the Assad regime, that's why it is absolutely crucial that they are handled in a professional way and that people don't go pillaging them.

Mass grave near Damascus may contain up to 100,000 bodies, says Syrian advocacy group

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