Human rights groups are warning mass graves across Syria could contain the bodies of more than 100,000 victims of Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez. One such site is in the Tadamon district of Damascus, where researchers are scrambling to examine evidence of widespread extrajudicial killings, including mass executions. Hiba Zayadin is Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Hiba Zayadin: “We found human remains, bones, you know, part of a skull, fingers, ribs strewn around the entire area surrounding the mass grave, which shows that, really, you know, a lot more happened here than what we already knew. … What happened in Tadamon here is just one of many others that are being found out across the country, and so it is really urgent that at this time, where we can see that there’s quite a bit of chaos given this transition, that there needs to be quick, urgent securing of all of these areas so that we can really find out the truth about these places.”