Three New Mass Graves of ISIS Victims Discovered in Deir Ezzor

More than 710 bodies were discovered in three new mass graves in rural Deir Ezzor. The bodies belong to members of Al Shaitat tribe that engaged in violent battles against ISIS militants who eventually took over the area and rounded up hundreds of tribesmen. Dozens of the bodies could not be identified due to the disintegration, distortion and mutilation by ISIS militants. Mohammed Qaddah, Vice-President of the Syrian Coalition, condemns the heinous crime committed by ISIS in eastern rural Deir Ezzor, where residents discovered a mass grave containing 230 corpses of tribesmen who were summarily executed by ISIS according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The area was the scene of fierce battles between the Shaitat tribesmen and ISIS militants, who eventually took control of the area and rounded up hundreds of tribesmen and executed them on charges of “apostasy.” Qaddah said that “modern dictatorships have left nothing but a legacy of mass graves, death and destruction. Four years have passed since Assad embarked on his brutal campaign on the Syrian people, and now ISIS to pursue the same campaign, and one can hardly find any difference between the two in terms of the scale of their criminality and barbarity.” Qaddah stresses despite the unprecedented sacrifices, the Syrians are determined to move forward in their revolution with the aim of building a state justice, law, freedom and dignity for all its citizens.” (Source: Syrian Coalition + Al Jazeera)