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mass grave sites in Raqqa which were prepared by IS early in 2017 in advance to their loss of the province and the city to the SDF are visible on Google Earth
#PT i've tweeted about these mass graves previously and @_RichardHall has reported from Raqqa for @Independent just recently with images that show how these sites look from the ground independent.co.uk/news/world/mid… 
from the article: "of the bodies exhumed to date [..] some 80 per cent have been civilians [..] all of those buried here died in the final fight for Raqqa [..] many died in the crossfire. «Isis prevented anyone from getting out of the city, and the coalition bombed everything»"
many of those who were trapped in the city and lost their lives in this battle were refugees from other parts of Syria
in addition to the mass graves identified in the tweets above there are two more sites in Raqqa city that were prepared by IS early in 2017 as well: just north of the Abbasid city wall google.com/maps?ll=35.955… and in a park in Al-Baytani neighborhood google.com/maps?ll=35.948…
