Bilal Shahadi
Appearances
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
The cell always smelled like sewage, and there was this kind of layer of grime across the floor and the walls.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
So the people didn't think about anything except the food. And every morning... OK, every day in our room, they take the names.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
And said that they would usually put an iron rod between his knees. Okay, okay.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
If anyone, if they beat anyone, all said Naya heard the screaming.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
And he spent most of the two years that he was in Sednaya praying to die because that felt easier than enduring the torture anymore.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
They came a soldier to our room and they seemed afraid.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
He came to our room, and for the first time, he didn't call us animals.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
I thought the regime make a decision that they will not beat us anymore.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
I told him, I want to go to sleep. Don't lie to me. Why are you telling me this?
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
The officer, the regime officer, he changed his clothes.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
He told me that he felt like he was dreaming this entire time, that he couldn't actually believe that he had been freed.
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Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
I grew up here in this village, and it was actually good.