Syrian Forces Burn Victims' Bodies To Hide Identities — Report

A new report has accused the Syrian government's forces of burning bodies inside pits in an effort to make the corpses unidentifiable.

This comes as the latest in a slew of accusations of crimes against humanity by Syria.

The report released by the Washington-based Syrian Center for Justice and Accountability on Monday said; "This may reflect a broader practice of the Syrian government to destroy evidence of their crimes and deny the families of their victims their right to know the fates of their loved ones or receive their remains.

"This process is repeated for every single body in the exact same order, indicating the systematic nature of the practice and suggesting that this may not be the only time this group of officials has carried out such an operation," the NGO said.

The NGO believes that the 15 bodies belong to civilians and army defectors shot dead by regime forces during a house raid in Daraa in December 2012.

Since the start of Syria's civil in 2011, Syrian authorities have been accused of torturing detainees to death, rape, sexual assaults and extrajudicial executions.