100 Thousand Bodies Buried In Syrian Mass Cemetery, Allegedly Finished In The Assad Regime Era

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JAKARTA - The head of the US-based Syrian advocacy organization said the mass graves outside Damascus contained 100,000 people killed by the former ousted President Bashar al-Assad government.

Mouaz Moustafa said the site in al Qutayfah, 25 miles (40 km) north of the Syrian capital, was one of five mass graves he had identified over the years.

"One hundred thousand is the simplest estimate of the number of bodies buried in that location," Moustafa said, head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force.

Moustafa believes there are more mass graves than the five funerals. Apart from the Syrian citizens, the victims include US and British citizens and other foreigners. Reuters was unable to confirm Moustafa's allegations.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are thought to have been killed since 2011, when Assad's crackdown on protests against his government developed into a full-scale civil war.

Assad and his father Hafez, who preceded him as president and died in 2000, are suspected of committing murder outside widespread legal proceedings, including mass executions in the country's notorious prison system.

Assad has repeatedly denied that his government has committed human rights violations and called its critics extremists.