Mohammad Chaeeb gently relayed the heartbreaking news to a family member over the phone – he had discovered his brother’s lifeless body at Al-Mujtahid Hospital morgue.
“I bid him farewell,” he murmured. His eyes fixated on the charred remains of Sami Chaeeb, with exposed teeth and hollow eye sockets, suggesting a painful demise. “He looks so different now. It’s like he never had eyes.”
The deceased had been imprisoned five months ago, vanishing into the shadows of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. His corpse is just one among many unearthed in Syrian detention facilities and prisons following Assad’s recent downfall.
In close proximity, forensic experts hurriedly worked to identify the deceased and reunite them with their families.
Yasser Qasser, a forensic aide at the morgue, disclosed that they had received 40 bodies that morning from the hospital for fingerprinting and DNA sampling.
The team had already positively identified approximately eight bodies when…
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