This report contains distressing details.
The testimony of eyewitnesses to, and participants, in president Bashar al-Assad’s killing machine, shared with ITV News, paint a gruesome picture of the way the Syrian dictator has crushed resistance to his operations.
One witness, who worked for the regime and who has fled within the last few weeks, says the bodies of political prisoners are still being brought from hospitals to be buried in mass graves.
Those claims are supported by analysis of satellite images by ITV News, which show the development of mass grave sites.
ITV News Global Security Editor Rohit Kachroo and Foreign Producer Natasha Tierney report.
Read the full report on the ITV News website here:https://www.itv.com/news/2023-08-30/the-smell-was-overwhelming-the-reality-of-syrias-mass-burial-sites
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