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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent

‘He ran in a familiar way’: heartbreak as families identify Tadamon victims

Still of soldier pointing gun at victim off screen
Six men shown in their last moments of life in the gruesome video have been identified. Photograph: Guardian Video

One by one the families have come forward. Some had studied the video frame by frame to identify their loved one. Others knew in an instant that one of the men being murdered in the Tadamon massacre was their family member who had vanished nine long years ago.

Ten days after the Guardian revealed the massacre carried out and filmed by Syrian forces in a suburb of Damascus, a fuller picture is emerging of the men who were killed, and unusually outspoken family members are demanding answers of a rattled Syrian regime – which has released a few hundred prisoners in an apparent attempt to quell the outcry.

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