Syria: Mass Grave in Damascus Should be Protected, Investigated

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Human Rights Watch researchers visit the site of the mass grave in Tadamon, Damascus on December 11, 2024. Human Rights Watch confirmed the mass grave’s exact location after verifying a leaked video, taken in April 2013, showing summary executions by Syrian government forces and affiliated militia. © 2024 Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of other summary executions, Human Rights Watch said today. Human…

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