Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #970 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY, December 31, 2024: ‘Search For The Disappeared’ Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy in Damascus: Images of tortured victims bodies cover the the outside walls of Al-Mujtahid Hospital in central Damascus. Every day, since the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a crowd of family members mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers come together to examine this wall of horror. They look closely at the disfigured corpses with smashed faces some with no eyes, in the hope of recognizing a lost loved one who disappeared into Syria’s notorious prison system during the 13 year civil war. On December 8, a rebel offensive led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates more than 100,000 people died in Syrian prisons during a brutal regime. Welcome to: ‘Search For The Disappeared’
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