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.
