‘I feared I would end up in the trench’: Digging Assad’s mass graves in Syria – Bel Trew reports from the site of a mass grave at Qutayfah, about 25 miles from the Syrian capital Damascus.

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1. > **“I only discovered what was happening here after I had dug about four trenches. Then I realised it was a mass grave,”** he tells The Independent at the **site in Qutayfah, now walled off but still untouched** after the fall of the Assad regime just a week beforehand.

   > **Four armoured vehicles, mounted with satellites and containing what appear to be Russian manuals and belongings, are stationed at each corner. A few objects, that look like bones, are scattered on the ground of the otherwise empty, scrubby patch of land.**

   > After digging the fourth trench, Ahmed says he noticed that the holes he had dug were being inexplicably covered up by a different team who clearly worked the later shift. **Then the smell started. One month in, the workers could only toil with scarves around their noses and mouths.**

   Yet another mass death site uncovered.

   **You can see how the [machinery of death in Assad’s Syria evolved](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1hh3lrl/syrian_mass_graves_expose_machinery_of_death/). [It’s disgusting](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1hi26pr/syrians_live_amongst_bones_after_years_of_tadamon/). Assad is safely living in luxury in Moscow as Putin’s protected guest. Just utter filth.**

   Some would want people to forget. I don’t think we should. This is what made a huge number of the Syrian refugees or migrants or whatever flee. **People caused that, it wasn’t a natural disaster. Assad and his allies caused that. By building death camps and then mass graves. Mass graves for tens of thousands of people, more than a 100 000.**

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