Former Detainee
Appearances
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
We would hear them argue about who's going to shower first to get the blood off them.
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
On Thursday, it's a very relaxing day for us because the cops or the guards would be tired from all of the executions and they would be sleeping all day.
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
Yeah, where there's a line of shrubbery.
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
Said Naya, basically they would be executed at around 12 or 1am and we would come pick them up at 4am.
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
So they didn't have any smell or anything because they were freshly executed. And they had the marks of torture on their bodies. In addition, you could see that they were executed by hanging. They would be cuffed with their hands behind their back and their feet would be cuffed as well. And they would be naked as well.
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
The slaughterhouse is upstairs.
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
As prisoners, we know that the slaughterhouse area is above.
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Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
They would come before breakfast.