A kids’s bed room
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In Syria a couple of decade in the past, whereas the Assad regime was targeted on crushing an rebellion that challenged its rule, it confronted an issue. It had too many kids in detention, who had been swept up when their moms have been arrested. An NPR investigation has discovered that a whole bunch of youngsters have been separated from household and positioned in orphanages round Damascus by authorities intelligence brokers. They ordered the orphanages to maintain this a secret.
Now that the Assad regime has fallen, households are looking the Syrian capital for his or her lacking kids. We go to Damascus to study extra.
