(Illustration by Jaimee Haddad)
“I feel like no one talks about the issue of the disappeared anymore. Yet it was the main objective of Syria's liberation,” said Fatima al-Khatib from the Bekaa Valley on Feb. 28. Behind this woman dressed in black sit orphans whose parents disappeared in the jails belonging to Bashar al-Assad's regime. They're learning to make colorful candles at the Bouzrat Kheir (“seed of happiness”) Center, founded in Taalabaya by Syrian women who have also lost track of one or more detained relatives. On Dec. 8, when the unthinkable happened with the fall of the regime, the women, members of the organization Families for Freedom, were convinced: their ordeal was finally over. “But none of the fifty women found their disappeared loved ones,” said Latifa, the organization’s coordinator in Lebanon.For Fatima, the shock was even harder as she obtained...
“I feel like no one talks about the issue of the disappeared anymore. Yet it was the main objective of Syria's liberation,” said Fatima al-Khatib from the Bekaa Valley on Feb. 28. Behind this woman dressed in black sit orphans whose parents disappeared in the jails belonging to Bashar al-Assad's regime. They're learning to make colorful candles at the Bouzrat Kheir (“seed of happiness”) Center, founded in Taalabaya by Syrian women who have also lost track of one or more detained relatives. On Dec. 8, when the unthinkable happened with the fall of the regime, the women, members of the organization Families for Freedom, were convinced: their ordeal was finally over. “But none of the fifty women found their disappeared loved ones,” said Latifa, the organization’s coordinator in Lebanon.For Fatima, the shock was even harder as...
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