Syrian Mass Grave: At Least 100,000 Bodies Were Discarded Outside Damascus Claims Advocacy Group

A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 100,000 people tortured and killed under the brutal dictatorship of ousted President Bashar al-Assad was discovered outside Damascus, according to the head of a US-based Syrian advocacy group — who said the corpses were squished by bulldozers to “fit them in.”  

Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), said the regime’s victims were found in al-Qutayfah, about 25 miles north of the capital. 

“One hundred thousand is the most conservative estimate,” Moustafa told British media of the amount of bodies he believed were dumped at the chilling site. “It’s a very, very extremely, almost unfairly conservative estimate.”  Moustafa also warned that it was just one of eight mass graves created by Assad’s fallen government. 

Moustafa, who arrived in Syria after Assad fled to Moscow, said the grave was likely the outcome of the work entrusted to the former regime’s military. 

“[The Syrian Air Force was] in charge of bodies going from military hospitals — where bodies were collected after they’d been tortured to death — to different intelligence branches, and then they would be sent to a mass grave location,” he said.  

Moustafa added that the grave matches the description from funeral officer personnel who helped unload the bodies and later escaped Syria to spread the word of the atrocities committed under Assad. (NYP/VFI News)

“Dear God, we pray for all the people of Syria who have suffered immensely under the previous regime. We pray for all the ones who have lost their loved ones, have been afflicted themselves, or were forced to leave their country and become refugees. We pray in Yeshua’s name that You hear their cries, heal them and give them leaders who truly care about them and will operate with justice, humanity, and reverence of You.”