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tv   Syria  Deutsche Welle  December 24, 2024 6:30pm-7:01pm CET

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the surprises i wish i am, i am ready to dive into the hands of human to do you have you have a one to talk to me before you go to the spot and unexpected sides of the a rare, surely when your mother in search of your son chains is a story that shared by so many mothers and a new syria, a story of hope and of pain. hey, this is the last picture of us a week before he was arrested the
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it's been 8 years since who psalms arrest for the 1st time since she now has hope of finding him again, it'll changed on december 8th, the data aside regime. so all of syria including hand were watching the live footage and i prayed they would all get out safely that i find my son the videos of the day a such so. so hundreds of former political prisoners streaming out of the resumes. prisons, they've been freed by the people who start to topples the region. the, according to the un international commission on missing persons over 130000 people,
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disappeared under a subs rule over the past years. nobody knows what happened to them. whether they were in prison or killed, thousands have now been freed from the prison. under the among them, james, younger son of modern will meet him later. whether her older son, who some has also been freed. or if he's already dead remains unclear. so far they've heard nothing. he is checked every hospital in damascus to see if he's among the injured or the bodies recovered from the prisons. her health keeps her going. she plans to visit one more hospital for photos of newly recovered bodies from prisons and been released for going along with her. what i do want to sandwich since her son who saw him for the rest, he has been taking care of his 2 children. yeah, here in morag,
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they were for an age at the time. their mother whose alms wife passed away the family was never told why, whose son was arrested. it wouldn't have mattered. the system was to imprison people, arbitrarily who saw him would receive no charges, no trial, no prison visits. well enough to do so much. i i pray that she comes home you are the son of a dog by sorrow aside. your evil buss are a little. i wish for god to bring you nothing. that's good. i love you. i love you so much.
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he doesn't like to see you cry stresses amount in 2018 he's younger son of mode was arrested by the regime and was eventually freed. he's now with family members in the south. it wasn't unusual for 2 members of the same family to be arrested. it was more of the rules and the exception. his grandson, murat, elaborate when he was sent to prison, you had to give them 4 or 5 names. but even if those people did nothing before, it was irrelevant. there's no one in this country who hasn't experienced injustice . you had to confess, even if it was a line you had to accuse someone else so that they wouldn't talk to you to save yourself shy so violent thinking that that might even now
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he's still can't believe her luck now that a smart is free. he was released from one of syria's largest presence, said now yes, also known as the slaughterhouse leader. we'll find out why. at the bottom of the month since he got out, he hasn't talked much about even if you call his name 4 or 5 times. he doesn't respond. i think he still needs time early. so latter. yeah, change still wants to convince us not just to return to said now your prison with her. she believes hassan was also held there. she helps define clues, perhaps even a document proving he was there was the last new she received from him was this letter he wrote in 2017, which a kind prison guards smuggled out for himself to say, i love you, but how are you my love? i miss you, i miss heidi and yeah, yeah, i met the military police station and swayed up no matter what they do, even if they cut off your head tom or hand, don't tell them the guards name. and then they did forced me to tell them who we
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was and they killed him, needing to give it this one after the prison guard was executed seemed lost. all contact with us. um yes, she believes he's still alive and is determined to find him there. first stop is the left hospital 4 days earlier, december 8th, 2024. to date, march the beginning of a new era for syria. overnight, everything changed. after over 50 years of oppression under the assad family, the people are free. the real, i cannot like for the 1st one, i can feel we are we, we can, we can build something and prove of itself was the 1st time like, for the 1st time me as a syrian guy who stays, we can stay in our country will own own future with our own hands. every one here
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knows somebody who was arrested and tortured for 14 years, oppression under assad regime was a daily reality. the 1st time that i know what that can express and my friends, just the future, the busiest please. i was saying that any serial, known to be critical of the regime, went to prison, their religion social status, it will make no difference. the list of arbitrary reasons provided was in this. now the regime is gone, but its violence has left behind unmistakable traces and deep wounds.
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wednesday, december 11th for days after i saw its full changes at the most ha, head hospital in the center of damascus. she's already been everywhere else. if who saw him is no longer alive, this is the last place his body might still be off much. her younger son was scapes . the horrors of prison only 4 days ago is with her hospital staff at home and pictures of the deceased from the prisons along the facade. the photos are of the 35 bodies currently being held at the hospital. okay. take a minute. have dozens of other families are here to searching for their loved ones . nobody wants to identify someone on this know. at the same time, years of waiting has made people desperate for certainty to finally know what happened to their relative someone realize instead of mind was instead, now you're in a crowd forms around him. they want to know what liberation was like. and whether
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he has any information that might help them off the ball. from a couple of i started banging on the doors, they called us dogs that told us to shut up. then we managed to break down to doors . we opened them and kept going through the book about that you know, the prism. are there any hidden places that secret dose information that could help us find our loved one? if i told you i knew something, i'd be mind going on because i didn't know secret underground tunnel by him. i mean, thousands of people are searching for their children, the model, the model machine to continue to examine the photos. but some of the people pictured are so disfigured even family members can barely recognize them. if they think they recognize who saw him and one of the photos they're allowed to enter the adjacent morgue. other families are already there, inspecting one body after another. matter or apologies here and that number, if you think one of the deceased is yours, like number 8, and let me know, okay,
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one of the forensic specialist to see if there's a path mazda or something else to help identify them. the smell of decay is almost unbearable. forensics specialists, dr. sarah male, him and her team are working day and night to identify the bodies. they're looking for anything that could help identify the deceased. some of them has the tools, so it's a, it's easy to define them. most of them is very sense, and it's a good thing on the trip. so that's the place where we take to the, to show symbols, to how they almost stop this person has already been identified. please close it back up to the task here is extremely challenging for the team. none of them are used to working with family members present in the perfect way
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came to these folks that they will smith in the past 10 years, maybe more years back outside the hospital. hundreds of people continue to check the photographs on the wall. there are families here from every background, spending all social classes and religious groups, some like haines family, are of the drew's face. she reaches the last photo. nothing. yeah. me, i'm a big kid up mother. let me get up in the met the cheap. com, you know, he'll be alive. it's okay. oh, that's okay. the i'm in his heart. burn is mine does the what is that kind of where you,
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if you're on the front of the ship, the product is worried about his mother, but she wants to keep searching. she can go on, not knowing what happened to some students this they go to sudden i um, the prison were awesome. i'd withheld in where she suspects who saw might have been taken off my degrees to accompany her. returning to the side of the horror from which he escaped just days ago. when he got a fema, maybe he'll remember something that could help the people there, let them and we hope to find new information. we hope he's still alive late like we're going to sudden i a know they've always called it about sharla sides. human slaughterhouse. yeah. my husband said he fell out of a sudden that's awesome . i still can't quite believe he's free after his 7 year incarceration. returning to the same prison, less than 4 days later is taking it's toll on him. by name was that i don't feel
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good, but we have a do this on the fine my brothers are. they still got unfinished business there. so i'm going back into the nightmare. i wish i could just the godaddy. and the guy was, he didn't have to go back, but he's going to look for his brother and we believe if he's there and still alive, that he has no food, no water, no electricity would be trusting in god, but he's alive. now, in addition to documentation, jean hopes to find perhaps a hidden area in the prison or an underground dungeon. it's a rumor that's been circulating for days. there's hope that there might still be undiscovered prism sales where people could still be alive that in the hope of finding documentation or the reason the thousands have come to the prison over the past few days. it's located about half an hour from damascus, summer, even camping outside of the hope and suffering have become closely interwoven out
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of the mill. this was their kitchen, mcculler. so this is where they took the things i wanted to bring new. ha. okay. what's this? those are papers for the prison is like why are they on the ground? i don't know how much alone are put them back. maybe another mother will find her son. yeah, let me keep searching. com. search with me. maybe i'll find something in a what here are these documents from 2020 and the other one in 20. 20. maybe we'll find 2016. from 2020 miles was kidnapped in 2016. by the in the chaos. it's almost
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impossible to find the documents they want. thousands of already been burned, others removed. it's like searching for an needle in a haystack that's already been strewn. meanwhile, off modest fighting his own battle. how much is the case with so degrading when they blindfolded us when they beat us, then us and then people would disappear. and i didn't know where they went. i've got everything. here's awful, let me know how so even when they give you food, they'd humiliate you or not voted as meals were being distributed autumn, so they'd always take someone out and beat them. so that's why the cool, so you'd lose your appetite, listening to the screams, and then continue ahead. i got out 4 days ago. here, 2 people gather around us mode once they hear he was imprisoned here. they want to know if he remembers their relatives. if they were in the same cell as him, but also doesn't know any names here. everyone only had numbers changed once to
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see how her son was forced to live all those years. and perhaps uncover a hidden part of the prison. said nadia was one of the largest prisons in syria. it could hold $10.00 to $20000.00 prisoners at a time. most of them having had no trial, not knowing the charges against them or how long they would be imprisoned. according to amnesty international, thousands of people died here, either from the effects of torture or execution. people were beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shocks. said not yet. so was just one of hundreds of places people were in prison. said naia was divided into 2 complex is known as the red and white prisons in the red prison treatment was especially brutal. do you still remember the nothing? yeah. up there. awesome. i was held here in the red prison for 4 years. the 2018 to
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2021 they asked me to the right email. hey zach of that's j. like on the this was the military police. and this here was their kitchen sort of almost about sort of like a this is where they would be, the site is small and so the other prisoners could hear us being beat over in that corner was the equipment they used to beat us with. people were beaten morning noon and night and so they weren't things like this. god, it's impossible. please. okay, so are you still in your right mind when you got out? may god punish them. this is the worst thing in the world. hold you were here.
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let me, let me hope that we live here eating, using the bathroom, washing everything. how many of you comes to 25 people and that's under the dining room has after 2020 or 2021. they didn't prove things which we look at. there's no way to live, it's like being dead while i live. most of the people a your product called kind of to accept all of us speak a little lower. and then what are they, including? you wouldn't even keep animals in this prison though. no one would lock 25 animals up in this room, let alone 25 people here are remembering aren't you? aren't you gotta miss it hard for you. oh
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ok. of the mode was allowed to leave the red prison in 2021. after his family paid a large sum of money to have him transferred to the white prison. the less severe complex. it was a common practice that made the regime a lot of money off. much says that when the order for his transfer came, he was being tortured with the electric shocks. returning to the red prison for the 1st time in several years is taking a toll on him. he just wants to leave the never. we came here because we could have found your brother when he was not in this building and the other building is easier for me to handle. i'm sorry for putting you through this. i'm bringing you back here. an as some of these set off for the white prison. meanwhile, and the red prison people are still trying to break through the concrete floor hoping to find people in prison. denise, you expect to find someone here hustling,
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pending much sooner, arrive at the white prison. this was where off mud was up until his liberation from it's their last attempt to find clues about what's on a what's this a solitary confinement hang on here. so when we're people locked down here to see i'm trying to show if we said something during visiting hours that the guards didn't like just one color. they put us in solitary. yeah, no homework alone here. the core method, what did you draw here? ok, so the rest of the donkey side to the family arrives it off months old. so
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this is not a whole hell. yeah. so this is where he slept. hey, in the left of the fun i remember bringing is the 2nd, right. it's not much time via i think the you wrote that. let's take it with us. you know, to do his sister change of mind, search the building for a little longer, but it's confusing the whole wasting unless finding information about who sam seems hopeless. off mode wants to leave it all behind the years of hopelessness, fear torture and suffering. they've ended here once and not just for off modern, but for thousands more than i did above. when we broke out, we forced in this door open at the side of the behind. it was a guard named house. i told him he was a furious guy who always screamed, spoke chaplain, a bit, chauffeur. oh, but at that moment it was the 1st time i saw him differently. i get him in the
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morning. he begged us to stay calm when we didn't touch him home and why he took off his uniform and ran out with us. i just decided others did to we're of the victim. a new era has begun in syria and now suddenly there's freedom couple freedom which for many as an unknown concept. yes. and honestly, as they've never been able to experience it before, what's up like the oppressors and the oppressed, or living side by side or not knowing who is, who especially since many of the perpetrators have fled criminals who may yet get away with what they've done. i'm lucky that become the official in charge of the complex. so they started this car and drove away calling about sort of guards close the gate behind them and shot at us for a couple of occasions. when they saw us running toward the scene, they realized that they were losing control and fled from the website. they threw away their weapons and ran with nothing even change of mind,
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can say no trace of who saw him in the prison. the teams searching for hidden dungeons so nothing happened. so i didn't want to come back here, but i had to i just hopefully find his brother when i drive the i, it's too awful being back here. i mean, even if this building gets turned into a shopping mall and a 100 years, i'll never come back up. i'm sorry, i brought you back that i've been waiting nice for days for him to be able to relax and get used to being a normal person again. i mean, so get me. i need to find out about the from the years of dealing with sony to himself was 4 years young inside, all of us. were afraid to speak, who were at least afraid to speak to these double express. i left the pipe in the side is gone, but what shut it off? well, don't be afraid. he's gone the laptop, the laptop,
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are you still home phone on the i'm not even give up hope then even if only to find his bottle of outlook telling me it's happening, i didn't see a reckoning with the sod regimes actions will take years or decades whether the full extent of the brutal past under these thoughts can ever be known with their survivors and families will seek justice. it all depends on decisions made over the coming weeks. the forensic teams in syria rely on international support. and the 1st united nations observers have already arrived the
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