{"id":15864,"date":"2025-04-14T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=15864"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:02:56","slug":"syrian-grave-digger-reveals-identity-exposes-assad-regimes-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/04\/14\/syrian-grave-digger-reveals-identity-exposes-assad-regimes-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian &#8216;Grave Digger&#8217; Reveals Identity, Exposes Assad Regime&#8217;s Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-A well-known Syrian figure, referred to for years as the &#8220;Grave Digger,&#8221; revealed his identity today, Sunday, to remind the world of the horrific murders committed by the regime of ousted president Bashar al-Assad against the Syrian people. Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported that the &#8220;Grave Digger&#8221; identified himself during a speech at an Arab conference held at Harvard University by his real name, Muhammad Afif Naifa, a resident of the Syrian capital, Damascus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex shrink basis-auto flex-col overflow-hidden -mb-(--composer-overlap-px) [--composer-overlap-px:24px] grow\">\n<div class=\"relative h-full\">\n<div class=\"flex h-full flex-col overflow-y-auto [scrollbar-gutter:stable]\">\n<div class=\"@thread-xl\/thread:pt-header-height mt-1.5 flex flex-col text-sm md:pb-9\">\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-16\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto py-5 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[70rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(12)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto flex max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"6bc8ea37-10ca-4062-9cde-9471cf051236\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o-mini\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"832\">The agency added that Naifa spoke at the conference about the testimonies he had provided before both the U.S. Congress and the &#8220;Syrian War Crimes Court&#8221; in Germany, noting that his testimonies helped expose the crimes committed by the previous regime against detainees, including the mass burial of thousands of bodies, including children tortured to death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"1238\">Naifa, in his speech today, called for the lifting of economic sanctions on Syria, which were imposed on the fallen regime due to its crimes. He pointed out that the Syrian people are suffering from these sanctions, even though four months have passed since the fall of the regime. He also stressed the necessity of holding all perpetrators of crimes against Syrians accountable in court to face justice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14937\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14937 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syria-5.jpg\" alt=\"Naifa Exposes Mass Graves of Assad\u2019s Torture Victims\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syria-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syria-5-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/syria-5-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of ousted Bashar al-Assad on a wall in the Al-Qadam neighborhood of Damascus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"75\"><strong data-start=\"19\" data-end=\"75\">Naifa Exposes Mass Graves of Assad\u2019s Torture Victims<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1673\">Naifa was responsible for burying the victims of torture in mass graves between 2011 and 2018, before eventually being able to leave Syria. In his testimony before the U.S. Congress on June 9, 2022, he described trucks that came twice a week from security branches and military hospitals, each carrying between 300 and 600 bodies of people who had been tortured to death, including children, preparing them for burial in mass graves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1675\" data-end=\"2181\">Naifa\u2019s testimonies, along with thousands of photos leaked by &#8220;Caesar&#8221; (First Sergeant Fares al-Madhoun), the head of the judicial evidence department in the military police in Damascus, helped expose the atrocities of the fallen regime against Syrians who rose up against his rule to the entire world. Prior to this, Naifa testified before the &#8220;Syrian War Crimes Court&#8221; in Koblenz, Germany, in the trial of former intelligence officer Anwar Raslan, who was convicted of committing crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2183\" data-end=\"2567\">Naifa spoke in his testimonies about three refrigerated trucks, each carrying between 300 and 600 bodies, which came twice every week from the security branches and military hospitals in Damascus. He explained that these victims had been tortured to death. He confirmed that he had witnessed the burial of more than 6,000 bodies, some of which showed signs of torture, in mass graves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2569\" data-end=\"2890\">&#8220;Caesar,&#8221; or Fares al-Madhoun, a former photographer in the military police who defected from the regime in 2013, took 55,000 photos of bodies showing signs of torture in Syrian prisons, before the refrigerated trucks arrived to transport them to a massive pit, where the &#8220;Grave Digger&#8221; would dispose of them haphazardly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"isolate z-3 w-full basis-auto has-data-has-thread-error:pt-2 has-data-has-thread-error:[box-shadow:var(--sharp-edge-bottom-shadow)] md:border-transparent md:pt-0 dark:border-white\/20 md:dark:border-transparent flex flex-col\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"text-base mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[70rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(12)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto flex max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6\">\n<div class=\"relative z-1 flex max-w-full flex-1 flex-col h-full max-xs:[--force-hide-label:none]\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"radix-\u00abr3hu\u00bb\" data-state=\"closed\">\n<form class=\"w-full [view-transition-name:var(--vt-composer)]\" data-type=\"unified-composer\">\n<div class=\"border-token-border-xlight flex w-full cursor-text flex-col items-center justify-center rounded-[28px] border bg-clip-padding contain-inline-size overflow-clip shadow-sm sm:shadow-lg dark:shadow-none! bg-token-main-surface-primary dark:bg-[#303030]\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full items-end px-3 py-3\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-auto flex-col\">\n<div class=\"relative ms-1.5 grid grid-cols-[auto_minmax(0,1fr)]\">\n<div class=\"items-top flex justify-center\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-A well-known Syrian figure, referred to for years as the &#8220;Grave Digger,&#8221; revealed his identity today, Sunday, to remind the world of the horrific murders committed by the regime of ousted president Bashar al-Assad against the Syrian people. 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