2025-10-13
42 分钟This is The Guardian.
What reconciliation?
What forgiveness?
Syria's deadly reckoning by Ghaith Abdul Ahad, read by Mawiyyub.
Munir and Anas are pseudonyms.
On the night of March the 6th, Munir, his wife, and their two sons, both in their 20s, got no sleep.
They hurled together in a small bedroom in their apartment.
as government troops and militiamen entered their neighbourhood of Kosoor in the coastal city of Beniyes and went from house to house.
The fighters seemed to be moving through the streets with little coordination.
One house might get raided by five separate groups, while others were left untouched.
There was no plan, Munir said, just violence and looting.
The first question the fighters were asking when they stormed into an apartment was,
are you Sunni or an Alawite?
The answer decided the fate of the residents.
Sunnis were spared, although in some cases their apartments were looted.
When the raiders found an Alawite home, some stole what they could carry and left.
Others had come for revenge and would steal first and then shoot.
If one didn't kill you, The next one might, Munir said.
Munir, a committed Marxist,
had spent more than a decade as a prisoner in Bashar al-Assad's brutal prison system.