2024-12-11
10 分钟From. The new York Times, it's the Headlines.
I'm Tracey Mumford.
Today's Wednesday, December 11th.
Here's what we're covering.
In Syria, the end of Bashar al Assad's regime has kicked off a desperate search.
Families are hoping to find out what happened to their loved ones who disappeared while Assad was in power.
For years, Assad used mass arrests, imprisonment and torture to crush dissent.
People were pulled off the streets or out of classrooms and never came home.
The whereabouts of more than 130,000 Syrians who were arrested is still unknown,
according to a human rights group there.
After Assad fled Syria on Sunday, people rushed to one of the country's most notorious prisons,
a mountaintop complex called Sadnaya, to look for their relatives.
Rumors spread that there might be hidden underground cells,
and they used shovels and excavators to tear up the floors and the walls in a frantic search.
They didn't end up finding any secret rooms, but dozens of bodies were recovered at the complex.
Yesterday, Times reporters were at a morgue in Damascus where they were taken.
Medical workers had started a social media channel where they were posting photos of the dead so they could be ID'd.
And hundreds of people flooded into the building, tearing off tarps that covered the bodies to see who was underneath.
Some of the bodies seemed to have signs of torture.
Many of the faces were so gaunt that family members wondered aloud if they'd even be able to recognize them.