Syrian Democratic Forces remove the bodies of the Islamic State’s victims in Hajin
On 28 April, the forensic group of Deir Ezzor civil Council began recovering bodies from the tombs located inside the city of Hajin, on the north-east bank of the Euphrates River.
The bodies were buried randomly during the last period of the Islamic State’s control over the city last February.
Most of the bodies recovered, according to the forensic group, are victims of the Islamic State, who were killed at various times over the past year, most of them unidentified and buried in mass grave in Hajin.
14bodies were recovered within two days, after the forensic team started their work in Hajin. According to Dr. Ahmed Al-Hazoum, a member of the forensic team.
“The aim of recovering the bodies is to prevent the spread of plagues and diseases caused by their disintegration, as well as to bury them correctly and legitimately,” Dr. Hazoum said in an interview with North Press.
The dead bodies are divided into two types, “some of which are removed from the ruins of destroyed houses, to be buried after the registration of the forensic report, and the other part belongs to corpses found in cemeteries, which are either for people whose remains recovered from the rubble, or old bodies that were randomly buried during the battles between the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State.
“The specialist teams were informed about two graves in Al-Majneh and Senbl neighborhoods in the city, according to information to North Press.
The Islamic State controlled the northeastern towns and cities of Deir ez-Zor, including “Hajin” city, during different times of 2014, after being taken from al-Nusra Front, Jaysh al-Islam, Ahrar al-Sham and other factions.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by Washington-led international coalition, were able to control them in mid-December 2018, about three months after the beginning of the campaign to control the cities on the north-east bank of the Euphrates River, of which called “Hajin” campaign.
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Jindar Abdulqader-NPA