“They thought they had nothing to fear from the government, so they went to renew their identity cards. But they didn’t come back. Now I have found them here.” The toll was at least 79, according to The Daily Telegraph’s count, the worst for any single find of victims summarily executed in the violence of the last two years. There have been larger tolls, but in rampages through villages, such as that which took place in Houla, near Homs, last June.