radical rule of law upon them. rebel fighters then focusing on the front lines with the assad regime entrusted the protection of addana to isis, and that is when the organization really began carrying out its draconian and brutal tactics. public executions became the norm. one rebel fighter describing how they would leave the bodies of people they had executed at checkpoints so that every single vehicle driving by would be forced to slow down and look at them. there were also a number of mass graves that rebel fighters uncovered when they managed to recapture addana. we were at the scene of one of them, where volunteers were digging up a grave that they had, in fact, already dug up before. a family was waiting on the sidelines looking for closure. one man believed that his two brothers, perhaps, may be buried there. and the day after we left, he discovered that it was, in fact, not two, but three of his brothers that had been murdered