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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Rights Group Accuses Syrian Forces of Burning Corpses to Hide Victims' Identities

A screengrab from a leaked video posted by The Guardian in May of the 2013 Tadamon massacre.

A rights group accused Syrian government forces on Monday of burning bodies inside pits in an effort to make the corpses unidentifiable.

“This may reflect a broader practice of the Syrian government to destroy evidence of their crimes and deny the families of their victims their right to know the fates of their loved ones or receive their remains,” the Washington-based Syrian Center for Justice and Accountability said in a report.

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