For years now, we have been informed of the mass detentions, disappearances and murders of anybody even remotely against the regime of Bashar al Assad.

However what we’re seeing now’s the every day proof, if it was wanted, of a marketing campaign of suppression and homicide that was performed on an industrial scale.

Jubilation that the regime has been toppled is now turning to grief because the our bodies of these killed by the hands of Assad and his henchmen are being found and slowly, very slowly, recognized.

Rising from the gloomy inside of the morgue’s fridge room at Al Mojtahed Hospital in Damascus, a physique is wheeled on a gurney in the direction of the examination space.

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They’re making an attempt to determine who the lifeless man is. All they know is that he has been murdered.

Throughout the capital Damascus, there is a determined seek for the lacking. There isn’t any authority right here, so members of the family are looking by means of the morgues themselves.

We watch as they open physique baggage to take footage of the victims – making an attempt to work out if they’re family members.

Beside them the fridge door has been opened, and stacked inside are over 30 folks, assigned a quantity, zipped up in physique baggage.

The identification mark of the unclaimed lifeless is displayed on the bag. They’re the unknown victims of this regime.

Close by, members of the family pull open silver refrigerated lockers searching for our bodies, earlier than hospital employees yell at them to clear the room.

They’re praying they are going to at the least discover who they’ve misplaced, and maybe, discover closure eventually.

As folks submit footage of the our bodies on social media, information spreads and extra members of the family arrive.

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When the our bodies are recognized, the households can take them away. We movie as a white physique bag is positioned on the knees of members of the family ready at the back of their automotive.

The scenes we witness are completely chaotic. Folks listed below are determined for completely any information.

Folks push and shove their method by means of the hospital entrance, struggling to get inside to catch a glimpse of the lifeless. It’s, merely put, determined stuff.

‘They’re hindering the group’s work’

Forensic specialists work to determine the our bodies, however it’s tough for them making an attempt to work amid this mayhem.

“Simply yesterday, we obtained a complete of 35 our bodies, transferred from Harasta Hospital, it’s mentioned they have been detainees from Sednaya Jail,” Dr Mohamad Jafran tells me.

“They arrived within the night, have been examined, numbered, photographed, and the images have been despatched to the households for identification and recognition procedures.

“The issue we’re going through is the interference from the households, as they’re hindering the medical group’s work,” he continues.

He and his put on white hazmat fits, masks, and gloves as they transfer our bodies right into a room for additional examination.

For some right here, it is the information they needed however dreaded listening to – they needed to know what occurred.

‘Tyrants with no honour’

The prolonged household of Mazen al Hamada collect in grief, quietly sobbing in a nook of the hospital complicated.

Mazen was a outstanding and even well-known anti-regime activist who they are saying had escaped to Germany, earlier than being persuaded to return by the Syrian authorities with an amnesty.

Mazen was arrested and, as they’ve simply been informed, murdered in captivity.

“A gang introduced him underneath the pretext of reconciliation, saying they would not do him any hurt, and it was all lies. They handed him over to the regime,” his sister Iman Bseis Hommada informed me.

“What can I say? Criminals, battle criminals, tyrants with no faith, honour, morals, or conscience, who do not belong to humanity… What can I say?”

With so many lifeless, and so many lacking, looking for and determine everybody will probably be a Herculean process.

A lady comes as much as me and begins unzipping her purse, she pulls out an image: “My son, my son,” she says to me, “I have not seen him for 12 years”.

“Nothing, no telephone name.”

For households like her, the search has turn into a full-time preoccupation.

The detention and homicide of anybody even against the Assad regime seems to have been performed till the very finish.

Hurriedly rushed to a ready automotive by his household, the physique of Ahmed al Khatib. His household says he was arrested 24 hours earlier than the regime fell.

He was one of many final to die. There have been a whole bunch of 1000’s earlier than him.