According to a human rights organization, the fifth mass grave discovered in Syria may contain the bodies of up to 100,000 people.
10:24•Updated 10:34
According to the US-based Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a human rights organization has found a mass grave in Syria that may contain more than 100,000 bodies.
Among other things, the news covered the matter Dagens Nyheter.
According to SETF, this is already the fifth mass grave that has been found in Syria of the al-Assads after the tyrannical regime fell and the rebel forces took power in the country.
– One hundred thousand is a conservative estimate of the number of bodies, SETF director Mouaz Moustafa assessed to Reuters.
The mass grave was found in Qutayfah, about 40 kilometers from Damascus. During the Al-Assads’ decades-long rule, executions of prisoners and rebels were very common. SETF’s Moustafa estimates that there may also be non-Syrians in the grave, for example Americans and Britons.
Openings from major EU countries in the direction of the rebels
The French delegation arrived in Damascus, the capital of Syria, on Tuesday, the correspondent of the news agency AFP says. It is the first visit of French diplomats to the country since the fall of the al-Assad regime.
Germany is also making overtures towards the Islamist HTS rebel group that led the revolution. According to the German Foreign Ministry, German diplomats will meet HTS representatives in Damascus on Tuesday.
The agenda includes the process of the transition of power in Syria and the protection of Syrian minorities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. According to the German Foreign Ministry, “by all accounts (HTS) has acted prudently so far.”
Source: AFP, Reuters