Damascus. Civil security activists in Syria recovered burnt bodies of more than 26 people from two different cellars in the rural area of Damascus. These bodies are believed to be the victims of the alleged atrocities of former President Bashar al-Assad government. Finding out these collective tombs, there is an increase in the increasing number of collective tombs being exposed since the collapse of the Assad government in December. It is believed that the bodies include men, women and children, and there are marks of bullet and burns on them.
A member of the Syrian voluntary civil security group White Helmets took out these broken, burnt skeletons from the base of two properties in the town. Wearing security suits, these activists marked every body and after coding the bodies were put in a bag and sent through trucks for forensic examination. White helmets rescuers Abed al-Rehman Mavas told the news agency Associated Press (AP) that the organization has discovered more than 780 bodies since November 28. Most of them are unknown. Some bodies were in shallow tombs, which were dug up by local people or animals.
The bodies have been sent to forensic experts to determine their identity, death time and cause and the bodies can be assigned to their families. Local resident Mohammad al-Herafe said that when he returned with his family in 2016, there was a bad bodies in the house. They found the bodies in the basement, but they did not inform the government and informed it. He said, “We knew that it was done by the government, so he could not say anything. ,
The Assad government has been accused of maintaining his rule by making air strikes, torture, hanging and collective arrests and forced the opponents. Ammar al-Salemo, who took out the dead body from another basement, said that a detailed investigation will be required to identify the bodies. Local resident Mohammad Shibat said that he left his area in 2012 and returned in 2020, then he and his neighbors informed about the bodies, but no one took action.
The report released by the United Nations Syrian Inquiry Commission on Monday said that forensic analysis of collective graves could reveal the truth of missing people. In the report, based on the testimony of more than 2000 witnesses and more than 550 torture victims, it was told how prisoners in jails during Assad rule were killed by electric shocks, burning, nails uproot, rape, sexual violence, mental and physical tortures Was. After the collapse of the Assad government on December 8, hundreds of families are wandering in jails and morgue to find their loved ones. However, many people were released after years, but thousands are still missing.
