Discovery of mass graves in Syria sheds new light on brutality of fallen Assad regime
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | With the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the scale of his regimes, mass |
| 0:06.8 | killings, and executions are coming to light more and more each day. Yesterday, the United |
| 0:12.4 | Nations said the new Syrian government was receptive to receiving help, gathering evidence, |
| 0:17.3 | and prosecuting individuals responsible for war crimes. Special |
| 0:21.7 | Correspondents Simona Fultein visited some of the mass graves that have been discovered |
| 0:26.5 | across the country and has this report. And a warning, some of the images and descriptions |
| 0:32.0 | here are disturbing. |
| 0:34.6 | This is Tadamon, what used to be a bustling suburb of southern Damascus. |
| 0:38.3 | After almost 14 years of war, it's a desolate wasteland with more bodies buried on the ground than people still living above it. |
| 0:47.3 | Human remains are scattered all around, an air of dread and sanctity hangs over these grounds, where countless souls perished in summary |
| 0:56.3 | executions. |
| 0:59.2 | Tamar Farah lives just a street away. |
| 1:01.9 | He bore witness to some of the horrors that happened here. |
| 1:05.9 | This was the front line in the fight for Damascus. |
| 1:08.8 | All the killing and massacres happened here. |
| 1:13.4 | When the uprising began, Tadamon became a rebel stronghold. Regime forces to control in 2012 |
| 1:19.3 | and turned it into a killing field. People picked up at checkpoints across the city were |
| 1:24.8 | taken here to be executed in cold blood. Their bodies burned and cast |
| 1:29.3 | into unmarked graves. |
| 1:31.3 | We know that the football field was turned into a burn pit where they burned bodies. You could |
| 1:37.3 | tell by the smoke and the smell coming out of it. |
| 1:40.3 | With time and rain, the bodies resurfaced from their shallow graves like evidence of |
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