Missing in Syria

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

There are one hundred thousand missing Syrians, according to the UN, who’ve been detained or have disappeared since the beginning of the uprising in Syria twelve years ago and the civil war that followed. Most of their families have no idea where they are and whether they’re alive or dead. Many are paying thousands of dollars for information about them which almost always comes to nothing. For Assignment, Lina Sinjab reports from Turkey and Beirut where she’s been talking to Syrian refugees about the desperate measures they'll go to in their search for their missing relatives.

Presenter: Lina Sinjab Producer : Caroline Bayley Editor: Penny Murphy Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar

(Image: Framed photographs of some of the people who are missing in Syria. Credit: Guevara Namer/The Syria Campaign)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Unexpected elements is the podcast exploring the science behind the headlines.
0:04.8	It's a real melting pot.
0:06.0	Yeah, the surface is a lot happening.
0:08.0	Unexpected elements from the BBC World Service.
0:11.0	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:14.0	Okay.
0:32.0	I'm visiting a woman named Malek, a Syrian mother of three sons.
0:37.0	Two of them are missing in Syria.
0:41.0	I've just arrived at her tiny apartment in the suburbs of Istanbul.
0:45.0	The windows open and we can hear children playing in the streets outside.
0:52.0	She scrolls through her phone showing me photos of the two brothers,
0:56.0	who she hasn't seen since they were arrested by the Syrian authorities 11 years ago.
1:02.0	This is her eldest son before he was arrested.
1:06.0	He's just a young man with brown hair and a little moustache.
1:11.0	Hey, what are you talking about?
1:13.0	This is the younger son, Mahed, just before his arrest.
1:20.0	He's too young to face all of this.
1:23.0	He's too young.
1:24.0	In this tiny, little living room, I mean, whatever you look that are portraits of the two sons together.
1:36.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
1:40.0	Amlina Sinjab and on assignment, I've come to Turkey, home to over three million Syrian refugees
1:46.0	who fled their war-torn country to find out how thousands of them are still relentlessly looking for their missing loved ones,
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