A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government conducted a two-year secret operation, transporting thousands of bodies from one of Syria ’s largest mass graves to a hidden desert location over an hour away.

The conspiracy by President Bashar al-Assad ’s military to excavate the mass grave in Qutayfah and create an enormous second mass grave in the desert outside the town of Dhumair has not been previously reported.

To uncover the location of the Dhumair grave site and detail the vast operation, Reuters spoke to 13 people with direct knowledge of the two-year effort to move the bodies, reviewed documents produced by officials involved, and analysed hundreds of satellite images of both grave sites taken over the course of several years.

The operation to transfer bodies from Q

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