Buried record of Assad’s brutality

Ayman Muhammad Khalil, a guard at the part of Najha cemetery used by civilians, walking through unmarked graves near Damascus. — Lynsey Addario/The New York Times

DURING Syria’s 13-year civil war, the Assad regime killed tens of thousands of civilians in a brutal effort to quash oppo­sition.

Some of the victims were dumped into mass graves, including those at the Najha cemetery.