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Ahmad Zaza

Ahmad Zaza is a Syrian journalist based in Istanbul.

A man visits a cemetery on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Douma, near Damascus, Syria, Sept. 24, 2015.

Syria’s civil war has created a black market for burial plots — and prices are soaring

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In Damascus, the cemeteries are at capacity. Now war profiteers are renting out graves as you would apartments, charging as much as $1,000 per year for a plot of land.