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Part Two: Bashar al Assad: The Eye Doctor Who Murdered a Nation

Behind the Bastards

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The Dark Hole We Throw Dissidents Into

In February 2011, Mooia Siazna was hanging out with his friends in the Syrian town of Dara. They painted a threat against their dictator on the wall of their school. Assad's men quickly arrested the 10th graders and sent them back to Damascus. The next day, 20,000 furious Syrians took to the streets. In macabre rot offices were vandalized. More protesters were murdered in larger numbers.

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