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REPORT FROM DAMASCUS

Survivors of the Syrian regime’s killing machine

Few Syrians, like Khalil Aindoura, have managed to escape the human slaughterhouse of Sednaya.

Survivors of the Syrian regime’s killing machine

Khalil Aindoura (R) and his father Mounir in Barzeh, Syria, Dec. 16, 2024. (Credit: Emmanuel Haddad/OLJ)

Khalil Aindoura’s first instinct when he heard gunfire at 3 a.m. in his cell at Sednaya prison was to assume the guards had come to finish them off. He had no way of knowing that it was actually rebel forces, firing several rounds to open the iron...
Khalil Aindoura’s first instinct when he heard gunfire at 3 a.m. in his cell at Sednaya prison was to assume the guards had come to finish them off. He had no way of knowing that it was actually rebel forces, firing several rounds to open the iron...