Dozens of people were killed in April 2013 when Assad henchmen filmed themselves pushing people into a pit and shooting them. More than a decade on, there are hopes some of those responsible may finally be brought to justice.
Along a narrow street flanked by bombed-out residential buildings, a group of children are showing off some gruesome finds. 'There was a shoe sticking out, and one of my friends said 'that's a nice shoe',' 10-year-old Yousef tells me. 'So he pulled out the shoe and all of a sudden a leg bone came out.' Syria latest: UK in 'diplomatic contact' with rebel group Yousef is brandishing a shovel with a bucket of human bones in his other hand.
'We used to smell these really bad smells and a few days later, big cars would come pretending to pick up garbage and they would load these dead bodies up along with the garbage, covering them up with tarpaulin.' She also says she would hear the screams of women being tortured. 'They used to round up women at the checkpoint and take them to the mosque. We would hear them screaming, they beat them, killed them... and I don't know what else.
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