Syria: New mass grave uncovered in Homs province

A new mass grave has been uncovered in northern rural Homs, central Syria, containing the bodies of unidentified persons believed to have been executed by the regime of ousted President, Bashar Al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA reported yesterday.

SANA said the mass grave was uncovered in the vicinity of the village of Al-Qabu near the Al-Houla area, northwest of Homs, noting that it dates back to a massacre previously committed by Assad’s militias.

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) noted that such mass graveyards are evidence of the violations and crimes practiced against prisoners, especially political prisoners, in Syria under the Assad regime.

SOHR head, Fadel Abdul Ghani, previously said the number of detainees who had been forcibly disappeared and were later freed following the regime’s fall has reached 112,414.

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