After Assad’s fall, the task of unearthing the dead from Syria’s mass graves is just beginning
Associated PressNAJHA, Syria — Bones are visible here and there among the mounds of earth in a field south of Damascus, one of the mass graves around Syria believed to hold the bodies of tens of thousands of people killed under Bashar Assad’s rule. Rapp is working with two organizations that aim to help document mass graves and identify officials implicated in war crimes — the Commission for International Justice and Accountability and the Syria Emergency Task Force. “It is all so unthinkable that this is happening in the 21st Century.” More than 150,000 Syrians remain unaccounted for after disappearing into Assad’s prisons and most are believed to be in mass graves around the country, said Mounir al-Mustafa, deputy director of the White Helmets, a Syrian search and rescue team. Rapp said the process of securing and cataloguing documents could take up to three months but identifying those buried in mass graves could take more than two years.
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