The demands have changed in the days following the liberation. The call, “release the detainees,” is no longer enough. It has turned into a cry demanding the truth. But in central Damascus, one woman’s request can never be answered.
Tag: missing people
Within 15 minutes, the life of Youssef al-Bazm turned upside down. The Palestinian father had considered himself the luckiest person in the world because of his small family. But everything changed on Dec. 1. His story is just one of thousands of parents looking for their lost kids.
The government of Chile’s young new president, Gabriel Boric, has begun to develop the National Plan for the Search for Victims of the Dictatorship, half a century after the coup.
In West and North Africa, survivors of migrants who’ve vanished have come together to support each other and pay tribute to their family members. But above all, they’re trying any means possible to find out the truth and get justice after years of silence.
SALTILLO — An alleged “illegal singing” case last week this city in northern Mexico might have wound up as a light source of laughter in the pages of a local newspaper. But when police in Saltillo tried to arrest a man for singing as he walked on the street, telling him he had no permit […]
After Typhoon Haiyan, the scale of misery in the Philippines is hard to measure. For one mother and father in the hardest hit city, it is infinite.