"On his first day, [Fayad al-Hasan] said, he wept. 'I can't sleep at night without seeing the scene again,' he said, highlighting the emotional toll of his grim work."
"The International Commission on Missing Persons estimates there could be as many as 66 such sites across Syria, where the Assad regime sought to hide from the world the mass killing of its opponents during a nearly 14-year-long civil war."
"They were part of a system of 'state terror' that will provide evidence for future war crimes trials, said international prosecutor Stephen Rapp."
"We haven't really seen this kind of machinery of death, or anything like it, since the Nazis, as it raises unsettling comparisons to historical atrocities."
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