“When you talk about this kind of organised killing by the state and its organs, we really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,” said international war crimes prosecutor Stephen Rapp on Tuesday (Dec 17) after visiting two mass grave sites in Syria.
Evidence from these sites point to a state-run “machinery of death” under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. The bodies of more than 100,000 people who were tortured and murdered since 2013 were laid in these sites, he added.
