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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities

Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities

The Daily vor 1 Jahr

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Warning: This episode contains descriptions of torture and
death. It also contains audio of death and grief.

Under Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian government set up a vast
network of prisons and torture chambers that swallowed up tens of
thousands of people. For years, those perceived as enemies of the
regime would disappear into the system, and their families would
have no idea what happened to them.

Christina Goldbaum, who has covered the events in Syria, takes us
inside one of those prisons and tells the story of one man who
survived to tell the tale.

Guest: Christina Goldbaum, the Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau
chief for The New York Times.

Background reading:

Families of the missing are hoping that they may be reunited
with loved ones or at least learn what happened to them.

Amid the celebrations after the ouster of Mr. al-Assad, Syria
has also found itself in the opening chapter of a nationwide
reckoning over the horrors that his government inflicted.

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