Abu Fadi (Excavator Driver)
Appearances
Up First from NPR
Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
If we give them security that they're not going to get arrested or anything, they'll tell you everything.
Up First from NPR
Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
It was like four meters by five meters, about five to six meters deep.
Up First from NPR
Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
It was just such a horrific scene. For weeks after, when I wanted to eat, I couldn't eat. I couldn't function normally.
Up First from NPR
Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
They make it pretty clear that it's not really a choice to not come back to it.
Up First from NPR
Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
You could see it in the satellite imagery after undisturbed ground, parallel lines of mass graves.
Up First from NPR
Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
It looks like it's just an open area without any real markers of what's underneath our feet right now.
Up First from NPR
Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
How many times did we break the bulldozer and the excavator together so they won't let us dig more graves? So many times. We always had so many tricks under our sleeve, he says.