A hip bone in a blown-out building, part of a spine amid some debris, a few foot bones in a worn-out sock. The Tadamon district of Damascus is littered with bones, after what residents and rights groups described as years of killings there under the rule of Syria's Bashar Assad.
Tadamon became infamous after a video emerged in 2022 showing a man in military fatigues leading unarmed, blindfolded men toward a large ditch, telling them to run and shooting them as they neared the edge or after they fell in.
The incident took place in 2013, but the killings went on until very recently, residents revealed, saying they had regularly seen Syrian security forces bringing men to the area, heard bursts of gunshots and smelled burning flesh afterward.
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