Some sites were on the airport grounds, while others were across Damascus.
A person holds up the flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers in the Damascus old city - REUTERSpix: More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to a report to be published Thursday tracing the deaths to seven suspected grave sites.
Death came in many forms, he told Reuters. Although detainees saw nothing except their cell walls or the interrogation room, they could hear “occasional shootings, shot by shot, every couple of days.
“Although some of the graves mentioned in the report had not been discovered before, the discovery itself does not surprise us, as we know that there are more than 100,000 missing persons in Assad’s prisons who did not come out during the days of liberation in early December,” said a colonel in the new government’s Interior Ministry who identified himself by his military alias, Abu Baker.
The SJAC said all the survivors it interviewed were tortured. The report focuses on the first years of the uprising, from 2011 to 2017. However, some testimonies from former regime officers based at Mezzeh detailed events up to the regime’s fall.
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