DAMASCUS,: Horrifying facts are coming to light after Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, with the latest news revealing a mass grave in Syria in which nearly 100,000 people are buried.
According to the news agency, the head of a US-based Syrian advocacy organization has said that a mass grave outside Damascus contains the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
Speaking by telephone from Damascus, Moaz Mustafa said that the location of Qatifa, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the Syrian capital, Damascus, is one of five mass graves that he has identified for years.
Mustafa, the head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, said that the most conservative estimate of the number of bodies buried at the site is 100,000.
Mustafa said he believed there were more mass graves than those five sites, and that the dead included American and British citizens and other foreigners, as well as Syrians.
The news agency did not confirm Mustafa’s allegations.
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed since 2011, when Assad’s crackdown on protests against his government escalated into a full-scale civil war.
Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, who preceded him as president and died in 2000, are accused by Syrians, human rights groups and other governments of widespread extrajudicial killings, including mass executions in the country’s notorious prison system.
