An international war crimes prosecutor revealed evidence from mass grave sites in Syria indicates a state-run 'machinery of death' under former leader Bashar al-Assad. Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, estimates over 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.
02:10 | December 21, 202402:42 | December 19, 202401:55 | December 23, 202402:14 | December 19, 2024An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013. Speaking after visiting two mass grave sites in the towns of Qutayfah and Najha near Damascus, former U.S.
war crimes ambassador at large Stephen Rapp told Reuters: "We certainly have more than 100,000 people that were disappeared into and tortured to death in this machine.An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.
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