An international war crimes prosecutor says evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria is exposing a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad.
Stephen Rapp visited two mass grave sites in the country -- this one is in Najha, near Damascus.
Rapp said he estimates more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.
"We heard from a witness who testified in Germany and whom I personally interviewed and we personally worked with for a long period of time with satellite imagery, that at this particular cemetery where he had been one of the administrators, he was called into service by the government in 2012 in order to begin the mass burial of persons that had been killed in government custody."
A cemetery guard and a farmer who lives nearby both described seeing refrigerated trucks at the site.
The guard said there were large pits for bodies, as well as graves that would hold about half a dozen people.
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