Syria mass graves: Daunting task of searching for and naming the dead | BBC News

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Over the past few days, videos have been posted online about mass graves where Bashar al-Assad’s regime buried those tortured to death in Syria’s notorious prisons.

Local people are reporting more and more locations of mass graves across Syria, as is the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a US-based NGO.

Rights group have concluded that more than 80,000 of the missing are dead. Another 60,000 people are believed to have been tortured to death, according to the UK-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

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