Fadel Abdulghany, director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), stated that the discovery of mass graves and human remains in various locations, including Damascus countryside, al-Kadam, and Homs, represents an “additional crime” committed by the former regime.
In a statement to SANA, he emphasized that these graves are “tangible evidence of a systematic and organized policy pursued by the previous regime,” noting that killings under torture, enforced disappearances, and mass burials constitute “crimes against humanity and war crimes” under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute.
He stressed that the widespread massacres documented in various Syrian provinces serve as tangible evidence of the responsibility of the “criminal Bashar al-Assad.”
Abdulghany argued that the continued uncertainty about the fate of those arrested by the former regime is part of a systematic policy that perpetuates the suffering of the families of the disappeared.
Since the liberation in December 2024, many mass graves have been uncovered, the most recent being the discovery of a burial site in al-Otaiba, in the Damascus countryside, and another in the northeastern Homs countryside.
