Thousands of Syrian refugees return home after brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad toppled by rebels
Following the overthrow of dictator Bashar al-Assad, thousands of Syrian refugees returned home yesterday in the hopes of a better future.
Others waited for word of loved ones outside the tyrant’s death camp cells, fearing the worse.
Following the start of the civil conflict in 2011, Assad had tens of thousands of opponents tortured and killed in prisons.
People searching for family members who were imprisoned during the government crackdown concentrate on Saydnaya, the most notorious.
When rebels discovered 40 tortured-to-death victims in a morgue, more proof of Assad’s ruthlessness surfaced.
Many people in Damascus continued to celebrate the end of Assad’s government despite the atrocities.
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Osama al-Bataynah, 56, a Jordanian who had served 38 years in prison, was one of them.
42-year-old Anas Idrees, who had recently returned from Lebanon after years of being a refugee, celebrated his nation’s newfound freedom by going to the renowned Bakdash ice cream shop.
“I swear to God, it tastes different,” he said. Before, everything was OK, but now that we are content on the inside, things have changed.
The number of Syrian refugees who can now return home daily has climbed from 3,000 to 15,000 to 20,000 in Turkey, which is home to three million of them.
Along the country’s 560-mile border, its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, promised to open a sixth crossing point.
The rebel faction that overthrew Assad, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, started to put together a government, and Mohammed al-Bashir was named interim prime minister until March.
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As the UN intensified its probe into Assad’s violations of human rights, Syria’s new leaders pledged to track down the officials who tortured inmates.
There will be a ton of information, according to Canadian prosecutor Robert Petit, who leads the UN team assembling evidence of war crimes.
His 82-member team has never been permitted entry into Syria, but they are now probably going there to get ready to bring charges of enslavement, genocide, and chemical weapons usage.
He stated: Since it’s the crime scene, it would be quite beneficial for us to gain access to it.
Information on senior army and security officers committed in war crimes will be rewarded, according to HTS chief Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.
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