Corpses, men who don’t know their names: Scenes from a Damascus hospital
Al JazeeraAt least 100,000 Syrians were disappeared by the Assad regime. “A person’s features change after he stays in prison for a long time.” What happens far too often, though, is that the family will later discover that the person they brought home is not their relative and they return them to the hospital so their actual families can find them. ‘Perished under torture’ When Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for Moscow in the early hours of December 8, nearly 54 years of cruel dynastic family rule ended. “I can state with confidence that the majority of these individuals have tragically perished under torture,” Fadel Abdulghany, executive director of the SNHR, told Al Jazeera on December 14, nearly a week after al-Assad’s prisons had been liberated. “It hurts the heart,” he said “What we saw here you can’t describe, between torture and executions … what we saw … it’s something we’ve never seen before.” Outside, in the hospital’s morgue refrigerator, Al Jazeera got a glimpse of 14 corpses that are still unidentified, lying in their white shrouds with their exposed faces deformed by torture.
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