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POWERFUL REPORT by Martin Chulov with photographs and video by Ben Solomon and Noah Payne-Frank, The Guardian, Sunday 10 March 2013

Bodies revealed by the Queiq river's receding waters. Photo: Thomas Rassloff/EPA

Discovery

It is already one of the defining images of the Syrian civil war: a line of bodies at neatly spaced intervals lying on a river bed in the heart of Syria’s second city Aleppo. All 110 victims have been shot in the head, their hands bound with plastic ties behind their back. Their brutal execution only became apparent when the winter high waters of the Queiq river, which courses through the no man’s land between the opposition-held east of the city and the regime-held west, subsided in January.........

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