Searching for Loved Ones in a Newly Liberated Syrian Prison | The New Yorker

Searching for Loved Ones in a Newly Liberated Syrian Prison

After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the country tries to discern the fate of people the regime locked away.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/searching-for-loved-ones-in-a-newly-liberated-syrian-prison

For years, as reports of atrocities filtered out, Bashar al-Assad remained in power, propped up by Russian and Iranian allies. As I entered one hallway, a woman in a robe began shouting, “Now you come to look. Why didn’t you come before? Why didn’t you believe us? Why didn’t you hear us when we said they were killing us!” After a moment, she moved on, but a nearby man began shouting, too. He wanted revenge, nothing less or more. He would get a weapon and kill the Alawites—Assad’s sect, which some members of Syria’s Sunni majority see as complicit in his repression. The man vowed to kill every man, every woman, and every child he saw.

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