''I Buried Thousands in Secret Mass Graves'' | Informer
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2022
- A Syrian bulldozer driver reveals the horrifying details of burying thousands in secret mass graves.
The Informer is haunted by the mass graves he dug for victims killed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
As the revolution unfolded, his municipal role changed into a military position overnight.
This meant, for a year, the Informer was pushing dead bodies into large pits with his bulldozer. He recalls the stench of the bodies being so strong that he’d passed out the first time.
The Informer was later arrested on flimsy charges and imprisoned under brutal conditions because “if he dies, he will die with all of his secrets and knowledge”.
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I have a friend who is a Syrian refugee. I would never ever ask his experiences but holy crap this is infinitely more horrifying than I ever could have imagined people having to go through.
It is not that simple, the biggest pillar supporting the Syrian fascist regime is a coalition of minorities mainly Alwaites, Christians, Druzes, Ismailites.. because those communities know well what atrocities and oppression by the Muslim Sunni arab majority in an Islamic Republic ruled by shariaa, I also have a Syrian friend who is pro regime and his explanation is either us or them, or we would rather have no Syria at all then leave it to sunnis who will expell us from our homes slowly and steadily.
I am Syrian myself everything he said is true and there are worse crimes. Just like Nazi Germany did to the jews
Then you grew up very sheltered, lucky you, the world is a nasty place
Why not ask? If you're a friend be might want to share this with you
@@bboyswitch22 If they want to, they will. It's not fair to dredge up all that trauma just to satisfy your curiosity
Whoever this man is; thank you so much for sharing your story. So incredibly brave. I am sorry for what you have been through brother, may you be Blessed forever on.
more propaganda lmao… who believe this garbage?
The syrian government was fighting against ISIS and Alqeada Rebels.. those dead bodies were terrorists.. and he’s exaggerated and added in other stuff to tug at your heart strings
How do you know his story is real?
@@boshi9 why do you question his story?
Typical BS propaganda
Brave but he's wearing a mask ..........
I just got a digital pen pal letter from a man in Syria. He told me he hoped to find some light in the words of people from other countries. Now I understand the depths that his request must have come from. Thank you for sharing, and I hope that these memories haunt you less in the Years to come.
May I ask how you found an overseas pen pal? I'd love to do this. Thank you
@@caseyminett7394 There's an app called slowly where you can find digital penpals, I hope this helps!
@@Lumi321 yep that's it
truly wholesome
Those memories are permanent....not entirely sure on which planet you live on.
You buried them with love, not hate in your heart. I hope you find peace. ❤️
I love you Vice; this series has shown me worlds that i could not have imagined. I hope this man is okay. I hope Syria will be okay.
I love ❤️ lol 😂
Inshallah
Didn’t realize how fortunate i am to not know the smell of a rotting dead body
Sickly sweet at first then heavy and makes you sick
@@matt.willoughby ive heard that before, the sweet smell. Wonder where that comes from
Take out of the freezer that piece of animal you bought at the supermarket and leave it out for a few days. Hopefully you'll go vegan.
I heard burning bodies smell like bacon
U never get it out of your head..it stays with you the rest of your life 😢
When I tell you when he started talking about that child it literally brought tears to my eyes bruh. Smh. The things we take for granted, man. And what's so sad, even though we hear about stuff like this happening all over the world we really don't care enough to actually do anything unless it happens to us personally. Then and only then do most of us get active. There's a quote that goes something like "the people who do nothing are as bad as the people who commit the crimes." These type of stories never get easier to hear. May Yahuah help us!
do anything? What do you want to do, go to syria and tell the president this is happening and he should stop doing that? Tell the hospitals they should stop doing that, the military?
Do you want the USA to start a war with syria, take over the entire country so this stops happening?
You cant do anything about that.
Jesus is Lord and he will help out world 🙏🏽 pray for them
i know he regrets not burying the child first. i mean he shouldve buried the mom and the baby together, then the men.
Yes we can do something about it our government send money to back these people up the same ones he is talking about our us government gave them our tax dollars no one every wants to say we are behind this that's why most countries hate us
I couldn’t help but cry at that part too. It hit hard. 😭😭💔💔💔
As someone from Syria, I am so sad to say that we got used to such stories. Syria have become a nation of depressed and traumatized numb people...
As someone lol 😂
@@thedecafe1 What is funny in this sentence that made you laugh?I dont understand.
@@thedecafe1 yes. “ as someone from Syria” what’s so funny about that?
Hey raven what has it been like in Syria since the revolution and how has it affected you?
@@blakegammon1023 I’m with you on that question I’m curious. But either way hope you and your family is okay Raven
I'm truly heartbroken for Syria, I've been there once when I was a child and it was absolutely stunningly beautiful, people in my area used to go every summer.
Now no one goes there, but I have vowed when it's allowed to go again, I'll go immediately.
I wish you luck! I hope you get to go there soon
because of a war, they lost everything. and this still happen in Middle East
@@em_nm3 xd
Why isn’t it allowed there is no more isis
@@Acnologia Isis is still around there just not talked about as much anymore in mainstream news. one of the reasons for this has to do with a very large number of them were eliminated so instead of thousands there's only a few hundred at most but even though there are fewer there still a threat.
Whenever I see things like this, all I think of is how the vast majority of people who've experienced such traumatic events will never have the opportunity to get therapy of any kind to help them process their trauma. I am truly blessed to live in a country and have the privilege to have access to therapy, even though my life experiences are nowhere near this horrific.
Yes. Thank you God 🙏🏽
Therapy? That’s a waste of time and money, they’re not missing anything.
The fact that this is a major profession in 2022 is disturbing. Truly dystopian.
I don't think that's exactly a major profession, I bet that guy ended up in one of those graves eventually unless he's in a safe country, the others though, who knows their fate.
U don’t know the HALF of it, I mean, TRULY. I’ve seen things and I could show/tell u things that would absolutely traumatize and disturb most anyone, people have NO idea what tf goes on in Syria. Well I DO 🇸🇾, and it’s not good. I don’t want to get to graphic or macabre here, I guess u can take my word for it, or not. I’m Syrian from abu Rummaneh in Damascus, and have family from Aleppo, friends in Daraa, and my brother is a humanitarian physician working in the camps and delivering aid from Gaziantep and wherever.
No, this was from the war in Syria.
War never changes
@@jordanalandry1866 I absolutely believe you . horrifying and disgusting ⚔️💯 God bless
We can expect a lot more stories like this coming out in the near future...
why?
Yo I make entertaining content as well! come check it out and leave a comment on what I should do next. I promise you’ll leave with a smile 😃 ❤️🔥
@@Arakox Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine, amongst other places.
How do you know?
What a nightmare of a story. I hope he and the people who have died in this senselessness find some sort of peace.
All of it false.
Christopher, will it honestly take you physically going there to believe anything or would it still be just media lies?
@@christopherduke2477 Tell me, what do you believe to be false here? Everything sounds believable.
@@christopherduke2477 I dont think its false so much people died in middle east where are there graves they dont have ones they just put them in middle of desert
His last quote on the child made some part of me die inside.
Me 2😢😢😢
When people complain about "immigrants coming to take our jobs" - you have no idea what some of these people have gone through. Any human would want to leave horrors like this behind them and make a new life somewhere else 😞
I feel so sorry for this man. I worked with many Syrian people and they are very kind and tenderhearted. It's tragic what happened to this country. I pray for this man's healing and restoration and for the healing and restoration of the Syrian nation and of it's beautiful people.
Listen to the knowledge he’s dropping. Just take a moment to appreciate how good, you the viewer have it, while you complain about your 1st world problems like internet and your fast food order getting messed up. Having worked many years in customer service and retail, I can’t stand how entitled we as Americans are. All the while atrocious such as he has been dealing with have been going on for decades
!!!!
i mean people here in America are still suffering, i live on a reservation in south dakota and it's incredibly sad
my dude you are so right it makes me feel like we are not even allow to worry about such things compared to someone like the man on the video it is just so insignificant complaining for those litlte things.
Come to San Francisco and see how great tens of thousands have it. Many people sleeping on the streets, I can show you anywhere if you wanna see. You must live in a smaller town where things are still nice.
Way to invalidate peoples problems. Yes there’s always someone doing worse than you BUT there is always someone that has it better than you too. So Americans shouldn’t complain because somebody else has it worse in a different country? What stupid backwards logic. Reminds me of dumbass parents who want to keep their kids in line, and make themselves look good so they always point out people doing worse than them and bash those who seem to have a better life.
Thank goodness I am where I am. My heart breaks for people that see horrific things like this man has
This is one of the realest most chilling one of these I’ve seen yet bless all those people and their families along with this man and his this is mind blowing to say the least
Listen to the vice on of the cartels. Will give u the runs 😢
@@videorocketzmillar007milla5 cartel stories are always so fucked I’ll check it tho thanks
Tears have been shed for you brother, thank you for sharing your story
Absolutely horrible. Great video again Vice
Absolutely lol 😂
I've heard a lot of scary stories but this one is totally the most terrifying
I’ve lol 😂
Ngl this is.
I am Egyptian and I ask all of you to search about what happened in Syria because I think it is the most horrible thing you may ever see in your life.
So glad to have the segments back on vice they truly are informative and so surreal
How much did they pay you to post that? Vice is as crappy as ever.
@@ghostlybird327 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
I'm just speechless. How can people be so cruel to each other that they would kill babies.
The demons are in them. They find evil people and go inside them. Insane.
@@videorocketzmillar007milla5 I was just thinking about how the Devil must love that despicable scene. Pure evil.
i wonder how many ppl horrified by this support abortion
Abortion rights cheapens human life.
May Allah bless you, my friend. I hope that you'll find peace in your life and the lives of all Syrians.
We’re tired man..
We just want a functioning society where we can live in peace and freedom is that so much of an ask?
There's a documentary on YT that I watched years ago ago about what they do to the very poor when they die. From discovering their body, to trying to find relatives. They show them placing bodies in one grave and covering it. There was a scene (I think in the same video) where they show boxes of unclaimed ashes. Imagine dying and not being returned to your loved ones, or not having the money to bury yourself with dignity
I don’t think I’d care.
@@nicolasarcana6139 good cuz we wouldnt care if you died anyway
Brave man for speaking out
That's beautiful he took the chance to speak God bless him on his journey may he have the best tonight all he can stand and then just a little bit more
These are my favorite episodes you guys do a great job
The madness of war and conflict….
Vice is a great informative channel,so many different topics and sides!
Vice lol 😂
As someone who lived through a civil war and genocides, I believe that my parents or other family could've been in the same situation as this man of they took only one wrong left turn. It scares me to think that this is absolutely happening in Ukraine and Azerbaijan now and that it will most certainly happen in the future with most of the world when the greed of our forefathers comes to collect the bill.
As someone lol 😂
@@thedecafe1 what are you laughing at
I know right. all so fragile.
And just like that, all my problems seem so miniscule and unworthy of mentioning.
I'm just glad to be alive bruh
I feel like the things he was talking about are OUR problems. Things like these should never happen on Earth in our time.
We want more informers please
Thank u 4 Share Ur Story
I cant imagine having to live with this. I hope that this guy is getting help.
I love these videos , I just wish they were longer , so much information to be learned to be to short ugh 😩
I love ❤️ lol 😂
thank you for giving these people a chance to voice the horrific crimes of assad's regime. over the years i hope there will be more exposure andd more justice for the innocent lives lost
When he was talking about the ice cream truck, I knew his relationship with ice cream would change forever. Stuff of pure nightmares.
These are easily the best videos on vice
Big fan of this series. It would be nice to have audio translations for people who prefer to listen
Big lol 😂
Horrifying and heartbreaking. 💔 May God forgive him and may those souls of the people he was forced to bury in a mass grave rest in peace. 🙏🏾🕊
Forgive HIM?? Are you for real saying that?? Wtf kind of messed thought process does one have to have to think that god can blame this bloke for a situation he put him in and in which he's coerced under threat of death??
@@AlesAmazigh Yeah, completely batshit.
@@AlesAmazigh What kind of thought process does one have to have to think God put him in that situation?? 🤔
forgive him ???? wtf he was forced to do that
@@latyshal.2286 Should he be real. Then of course he put him in that situation. Omnipotent and all seeing. As you all say "God works in mysterious ways".
I really love all these stories from informer
I really lol 😂
I will always remember you man 😢 stay strong
The devil walks amongst us in flesh and blood. I hope this man can find peace, very disturbing 😭
So glad this man go out. People have no idea how lucky we have it here in America. So sorry anyone who has to endure what he went through or those people who went through what they did. Of course nothing of what this man said has been in the news. Make more war crimes national news.
I hope you find peace brotha ✌️ 🙏
This is why the internet exists I hope somehow some justice is served thanks to this brave confession
This reminds of the sonderkommandos in the death camps during the Nazi-Era, specifically Auschwitz. We can’t blame them for digging these mass graves and for herding people to their deaths. They had to do this for survival. Some might say that “you would’ve had to just kill me” but man they don’t know and I don’t know. My heart goes out to this man and countless others forced to dig and fill mass graves.
more propaganda lmao… who believe this garbage?
The syrian government was fighting against ISIS and Alqeada Rebels.. those dead bodies were terrorists.. and he’s exaggerated and added in other stuff to tug at your heart strings
People who say, “you would’ve had to just kill me”, are not thinking about these men and how much they loved their families. Are you really going to leave your daughters and wife to be victimized by these monsters all around you?
You have to become a monster as well. You have to try to remember what it’s like to be innocent and loving and you have to hope you can still be human enough to guide your children when it’s all over.
Until then you are at the mercy of the tremendous evil that has occupied your country and is turning men and women into demons.
It’s literally survival. Also, the truest test of integrity. Are you willing to sacrifice yourself for your brother?
Most of the guards at the camps were volunteers who were too cowardly to fight on the frontlines.
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. -John Steinbeck-
This is a good informative series. It also adds to the creepiness with people wearing "The Purge" type of masks! I feel sorry for this guy .He did not want to do this job really. Thanks for the upload.
I sincerely hope this man finds peace 😔
I can't touch dead. I have immense respect for those that do. Thank you.
I mean, it's not like he had a choice...
People have lost a sense of humanity
Not sure we ever had it
@@ProbablyOnLSD6669 Agreed The key feature of human kind.
As Ollie Weeks said in "The Mist"... As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another.
No Country for Old Men
Imagine witnessing such horrors and knowing full well you could easily be next amongst these dead.
Oh my god these poor people and this poor man.
Yo.... i was not ready for it to be that heavy.
Well, THAT'S called PTSD my friend. I hope he finds peace.
Edit: oh God it just keeps getting more horrifying. I feel bad saying I have ptsd from childhood abuse in the face of prison babies being eaten by dogs and wasting away to 77 lbs. At least I had food, and I kept my sisters safe so i didn't see any bodies. I feel like those assholes who go around saying they have ptsd cause their dog died of old age or something. The comparison is equal in our cases here.
Ptsd is ptsd, trauma is trauma no matter how bad or how small it can seem. Everyone has their own limits to what they can handle so never feel bad.
@@Shadowhunter420 maybe the small trauma shouldn't get lumped in with the war experience trauma
@@Shadowhunter420 its different trust me
Someone who drowns in five feet of water is just as dead as someone who drowns in fifty feet of water. Trauma is trauma, it does not have to be as life-shattering as this man's story for it to have affected you. -A fellow trauma survivor
@Samuel Supernova can't argue that. be as well as you can today, friend, as i hope he is, wherever he is.
I can't believe that it's really happening.. People are really a Monster.
Poor man 😪
Damn man i am really speechless. This world is so fucked up ! The story with the baby was just horrible. I wish him a good recovery if its possible !!!
Damn lol 😂
There are so many atrocities happening in the world without even being reported.
Christ,,that's unreal !!!!!!!
Vince needs to get someone to speak up about the starlight tours in Saskatchewan canada.
I remember when Raqqa was the place to be in the Middle East; full of history, culture, art, and architecture. Now, conflict has ran it into the ground.
I'm just curious.how far back was that?
@@casperchristensen6451 Even in 2005 it had all those cultural elements and deep historical roots, the regime was still brutal agaisnt any opposition but that is different from repeated rocket attacks and shelling in the town square. The destruction from the war itself is immense. This is why Syria is a difficult issue. The regime itself was, as we can see in the video, clearly evil but the revolution against the regime produced more destruction than existed under the regime.
Also Raqqa was intensely shelled by the United States while they were besieging the town when it was under IS-control. The Pentagon said the Marine unit used more mortar muntions than any other unit since the Vietnam War.
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I can not imagine how horrible this must have been. Having to live life after something like this must be very hard, Dreams must be really bad sometimes.
I hope this Man finds peace. Prayers of Strength, Healing, Hope, Comfort, Tenacity and Love. ❤️
You know they just hired a local actor and gave him a script right? 🥴 Imagine believing this was legit.
Man this is disturbing
Can you make the subtitles bigger please it’s hard to see them
May Allah grant everyone who died jannah
I hope and pray anyone who contributed to any Syrians death gets severely punished one day in the afterlife
Ya allah please deal with anyone who kills anyone I wish we could all just live in peace
All of this wouldn'tve happened if it was not for Islam.
I am so sorry you had to go through any of this. Thank you for taking the risk of coming forward. Syria will be free. Assad will meet justice.
You will meet the blade in your neck and Assad will remain .
So so horrible may god be with Syria and the rest of the Middle East/world that’s In times like these
Harrowing
When he said he dug a grave 15 meters by 10 meters deep in like two hours I'm like who is this guy, superman? Then I realized he must have had an excavator or something
@0:46
Bull dozer. Tracked construction machines go very slow and will tear up roads just traveling on them. Not that the military cares or would even refuel it. Big machines leave plenty of evidence of their presence. Way more then hand shovels.
He said he had one
Same, wanted to comment on that, but then he mentioned the use of heavy machinery. And what is this regime he's talking about? Assad? ISIS? No details which side he's talking about.
Yeah, I wrote that before I got to that part lol
I hope you find true peace in the world . God knows you deserve it.
I hope 🤞 lol 😂
I live next to a crematorium…. And that’s with filters I couldn’t imagine by the hundreds :( body fat turns to grease and grease can have thick black smoke and it’s a smell I wouldn’t wish on anyone 😢
I live lol 😂
@@thedecafe1 for now at least
@@PinkBlondeBarbiexo any place where a human could or has died usually they build there
Wtf, thats truly horrible :o
I have no words
Took me a sec to even think/type these
I wish you guys would do voice-overs so that I can listen without having to stare at my phone
I know, it's so hard to look at a phone.
Not only that, the subtitles are so short in duration I have to rewind a couple of times
@@jponz85 learn how to read quicker habibi
#1stWorldCountryIssues
Reminds me of Wall-E
This is so sad
Sorry for what you have been through , brother.
Hope your current life in the UK is giving you some fruits that middle east never did.
Now that is a sick society
I’ve been sitting in bed with COVID telling myself other people have it worse and God had to show me this just to really prove that’s true. I hope this man is doing okay and that whatever PTSD this left behind he can find peace in life.
An imaginary friend gave you Covid as a lesson ??? I don't want such friendship and in any case i don't believe in "god", Santa Claus or unicorns...These are stories for 8 years old kids !
Hi Vice 👋
Human life was worth less than one American dollar last century, I estimate it to be under a dime in this one.
probably more once you factor in inflation
These informers are chilling
Oh my
I swear I knew it was related to Syria before even watching it and oh boy.
War is hell.
What’s the background music they use?
visualize the bodies of your loved ones. their faces. the body of the person you love. The love of your life, your children, your mother. the body that you held, the head inside of wich were her thoughts, her personality, the emotional and physical intimity you shared with that person. Her eyes, her smiles, the warmth of her body, her voice... imagine that magical thing, that marvelous and most precious thing, that being suddenly killed, obliterated for the most absurd reasons, for the most cynical and nihilistic reason. a reason so impersonal, so unspecific to the person you loved. Imagine their bodies being utterly destroyed, piled up, left to rot, whithout dignity, throwed into a pit, without any respect, without tenderness, without the infinite love you want them to be treated with. In the hope that the world will forget them. And you'll never know where that body, the body so mistreated but so precious of the person you loved and who was taken from you, has been hidden. And the earth resumes its journey. and the rest of the world will never know.
Thank hillary for this one..
Wow 😮😮
This is a big liar, how could he get released from that jail if they kill people that easy?? Why was he arrested?? Who know the terrorist opposition in Syria, just as Joe Biden admitted in his speach to students in Harvard University will know who these traiters are. Joe biden admitted that USA & it's allies trained terrorists in Turkey and sent them into Syria, to find out that most of them join Alnusra & ISIS, and only FIVE members left in the so called free syrian army (the secular gang).
It would take a lot more than that to make me stop eating ice cream
Wait! it still continues!?????😮
The world reality is much stranger than fiction
This was edited strangely or parts were cut out.
It’s sad you know
where did the bodies come from?