Mouaz Mustafa, executive director of the Syrian emergency taskforce, shares his harrowing experience searching for his missing uncle in Syria. He believes his uncle was likely buried in mass graves by the Assad regime due to his humanitarian work and activism.
We spoke to Mouaz Mustafa, executive director of the Syria n emergency taskforce, and asked how certain he was that his uncle was one of those buried in the mass graves of Al-Qutayfa.If he is, and we believe he is, unfortunately. I’ve searched everywhere in Damascus for him and American citizens and others as well. Qutayfa would be where he would have been thrown alongside the hundreds of thousands, frankly, of bodies that have been buried in mass graves by the Assad regime.
You cling on to that 0.1% chance. And so it’s a weird thing because I know – and I would be telling somebody else that that would have been in my place – ‘listen, he’s gone, open a court case, have a funeral. Move on. He’s in heaven right now, watching the liberation of Syria happen from afar.’ But as a human being, as someone who loves someone else, I still want to cling on to that 0.001% because I don’t have a body. And that’s the story of so many families.
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