S27 E6: The Forgotten Children | "Bloodlines"
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Poonam makes the perilous journey to the last known location of baby Salmaan, a guesthouse near where IS made its last stand. But IS sleeper cells still lurk in the desert and Poonam only has one hour on the ground – can she find what she needs in time?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | It's the night of January 20, 2022. |
| 0:12.0 | A truck approaches the gates of Wiran prison in the city of Hasakha in northeast |
| 0:16.8 | Syria. The building holds an estimated 3.5,000 suspected IS members. |
| 0:24.0 | A bomb blasts a hole in the prison wall. |
| 0:31.0 | In the chaos that follows, |
| 0:32.6 | IS Minitants overcome the guards and storm the jail, |
| 0:36.6 | with one aim, to take their people back. It's the terror group's most brazen attack since a defeat of its caliphate in 2019. |
| 0:52.0 | The Syrian Democratic Forces, the SDF, backed by US |
| 0:57.2 | airstrikes, struggle to regain control of the prison. For 10 days they engage in intense fighting. Amidst the carnage a voice message makes it out. |
| 1:09.7 | I just got shot while I patching my's bleeding. I'm very scared. |
| 1:14.0 | Yous of Sahib, a 17 year old boy brought to Syria by his family from Australia |
| 1:19.8 | when he was 11. |
| 1:21.4 | There's no doctors here that can help me. I need help please. Just get |
| 1:24.5 | up my dying in time. Please help me. It's a message to his family back home. |
| 1:29.2 | Well listen please if you can send this to BBC news or any news reporter so they can see this, please. |
| 1:34.8 | If you can help us, please. |
| 1:35.8 | His family get useless messages to me. In the days that follow, Yusser says he's not the only kid caught in the crossfire. |
| 1:43.4 | The kids are just everywhere it's mixed up here. |
| 1:46.2 | You can just know such things as kids or no kids. |
| 1:48.9 | A lot of the kids, you know, like 15 to a lot work killed a lot of my injured now. |
| 1:55.0 | Hundreds of boys were taken to men's prisons like these, |
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