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They are the silent witness of atrocity mass graves uncovered after a regime falls On Tuesday, after visiting sites close to Syria's capital, Damascus, Stephen Rapp, who led prosecutors for the tribunals investigating war crimes in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, suggested that what he called the organized killing by the state we really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis.
The Syrian Emergency Task Force, a humanitarian and activist organization, estimates half a million bodies can be buried in mass graves in Syria.
Moaz Mustafa from the task force is back in the country after operating his group from the United States.
He told the BBC's Sarah Montague what they found out so far about Syria's mass graves.
We found out years ago, back in 2021, about these mass graves because we talked to these mass grave workers that worked there.
And what we know now is I was able to go to these locations and not just see them on Google Earth on satellite images as we had before, but see them in person.
And there are hundreds of thousands of men, women, children and elderly in these mass graves.
And we know that because all of these different witnesses that worked on the mass graves told us that every single week, twice a week, four big trailer trucks with at least 100 people each and filled up these mass graves.
That means that there is in Kutaifa alone at least conservative, you know, estimate is 300,000, closer to 350, 350,000 or more.
And there are more mass grave locations?
Yes, this one is the biggest.