Syrian mass grave is largest uncovered since Stalin era as 100,000 bodies were discarded outside Damascus: advocacy group

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-20 12:54:37 | Updated at 2024-12-20 18:36:22 5 hours ago

Syrian mass grave is largest uncovered since Stalin era as 100,000 bodies were discarded outside Damascus: advocacy group
New York Post ^ | Dec. 17, 2024 | Ronny Reyes

Posted on 12/20/2024 4:46:55 AM PST by george76

A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 100,000 people tortured and killed under the brutal dictatorship of ousted President Bashar al-Assad was discovered outside Damascus, according to the head of a US-based Syrian advocacy group — who said the corpses were squished by bulldozers to “fit them in.”

Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), said the regime’s victims were found in al-Qutayfah, about 25 miles north of the capital.

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“One hundred thousand is the most conservative estimate,” Moustafa told Reuters of the amount of bodies he believed were dumped at the chilling site. “It’s a very, very extremely, almost unfairly conservative estimate.”

Moustafa also warned that it was just one of eight mass graves created by Assad’s fallen government.

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The mass grave identified at al-Qutayfah is littered with multiple trenches estimated to be about 19 to 23 feet deep and more than 10 feet wide.

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bulldozer drivers who were ordered by the regime to squish “the bodies down to fit them in” the holes.

The grim discovery is believed to be one of the largest mass graves in modern history.

A Stalin-era mass grave in Ukraine — located at Bykivnia, a forest outside the capital Kyiv — is estimated to be the burial site of more than 200,000 executed political prisoners

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1 posted on 12/20/2024 4:46:55 AM PST by george76

To: george76

Which liberals may not class as genocide, unless they can blame Israel for it.

2 posted on 12/20/2024 4:50:31 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)

To: george76

This monster also used chemical weapons

He killed 300,000 of his own citizens - making him already the worst mass-murderer of this century

And yet, even with all this well-known, SOME here on FR actually defended him as “a nice guy” ... disgusting

3 posted on 12/20/2024 4:53:31 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)

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