Syria's Mass Grave Unearthing

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After Assad's fall, the task of unearthing the dead from Syria's mass graves is just beginning

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After Assad 's fall, the task of unearthing the dead from Syria 's mass graves is just beginning.

With his ouster, residents, forensic teams and international groups face what could be a yearslong task.

The White Helmets have received reports of at least 13 mass grave sites around the country.

An array of prisons run by the military, intelligence and security agencies were notorious for systematic torture, mass executions.

“It is understandable that the desperate family members will try to go to a site hoping that they find some sign of their relatives, some information,” Rapp said. He said the same is happening with documents found at sites. “Although that is understandable, it can be damaging to an investigation," he said. Rapp said the process of securing and cataloguing documents could take up to three months but identifying those buried in mass graves could take more than two years ..

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