Abu Fadi, an excavator driver, factors out the place he dug trenches the place our bodies have been buried in a mass grave website in Qutayfa, Syria.
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Abu Fadi, an excavator driver, factors out the place he dug trenches the place our bodies have been buried in a mass grave website in Qutayfa, Syria.
Claire Harbage/NPR
The autumn of Syria’s chief in December opened the doorways to an unlimited community of detention facilities and prisons throughout the nation, uncovering additional proof of the true scale of killings below former president Bashar al-Assad.
On this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR’s Ruth Sherlock takes us to a infamous jail the place hundreds have been detained and killed, and she or he visits a suspected mass gravesite outdoors Damascus. She meets former prisoners and people compelled to play a task in what has been referred to as the regime’s “machinery of death.”
This episode was produced by Justine Yan and edited by Jenny Schmidt. The engineer was Gilly Moon.
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