True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave

His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.

But since Bashar Al-Assad fell from power – the full horror of the regime’s crimes is being revealed. Syria was largely cut off to journalists during his 24 years in power.

But now the daunting task of documenting Assad’s atrocities can begin: starting with the country’s mass graves. Including one where around 150 thousand people may have been buried.