Abu Fadi (Excavator Driver)

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8 appearances

Podcast 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.

1304.87 View full episode →

Up First from NPR

Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'

I drive an excavator.

1347.278 View full episode →

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.

1381.194 View full episode →

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.

1444.771 View full episode →

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.

1477.199 View full episode →

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.

1629.596 View full episode →

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.

1652.738 View full episode →

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.

1819.39 View full episode →

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