Hundreds of bodies could have been buried at a mass grave discovered in Egypt’s Sinai province by human rights campaigners.
Bodies were found at a burial site near a military outpost by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights.
The group discovered the mass graves while conducting research into disappearances and extrajudicial killings of civilians during a decade of conflict in the Sinai region between Egyptian security forces and Islamic State-aligned militants.
The findings provide “rare, documented evidence of enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial executions in North Sinai”, said Ahmed Salem, the executive director of SFHR.
“This discovery not only sheds light on the scale of violations committed by the Egyptian army during the conflict, but also demonstrates a systematic pattern of unlawful killings and the secret burial of victims, carried out with total impunity.”
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