Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell. Now Syrians around the world are circulating images of the corpses in hopes that they will see slain loved ones whose fate had been a mystery.
Dozens of relatives gathered at a morgue in Damascus on Wednesday, anxiously awaiting news about their loved ones who were imprisoned or killed by the security apparatus of the toppled Syria n government. On the morgue’s wall outside, pictures of some of the dead were pinned so their relatives can identify them, as many remain unknown.
Some of the prisoners died just weeks ago. Others perished months earlier. Syrians across the world are now circulating images of the bodies in hope of seeing slain loved ones whose fate had been a mystery. Standing over the body, he lifted the drape and gently pulled out his brother’s left hand, examining it closely. “Here,” he said, pointing to the stump.Yasser Qasser, a forensic assistant at the morgue, said they received 40 bodies that morning from the hospital that were being fingerprinted and having DNA samples taken. The staff had already identified about eight, he said. “But dozens of families are arriving, and the numbers don’t match.
As they searched the morgue, some families moved among the bodies, weeping quietly and pausing to look for familiar features. The bodies lay covered in white shrouds, each marked with a number and some bearing the label “unknown.”
Prisons Imad Habbal Mohammad Chaeeb Damascus General News World News Abdallah Youssef Yasser Qasser Syria Associated Press Sami Chaeeb World News
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