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Two mass graves identified in Syria
2022-03-18


QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The New York Times interviewed over the past several months four Syrian men who worked at or near secret mass graves, which led to an examination of satellite images.

Together, those clues revealed the locations of two sites where each one holds thousands of bodies of Syrians killed in detention centers administered by the Syrian government during the war.

They could also contain powerful evidence of war crimes committed by the government security forces, according to human rights groups, including the systematic torture and the killing of detainees.

To draw attention to those atrocities, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, an advocacy group, brought one of the men interviewed by The New York Times to Washington this week to speak with members of Congress and others about the mass graves.

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