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	Podcast:		Up First
	Episode:		Reckoning with the Assad Regime's 'Machinery of Death'
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:32:32
	Publish Date:		2025-01-26 08:00:59
	Description:		The fall of Syria's leader in December opened the doors to a vast network of detention centers and prisons across the country, uncovering further evidence of the true scale of killings under former president Bashar al-Assad. On this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR's Ruth Sherlock takes us to a notorious prison where thousands were detained and killed, and she visits a suspected mass gravesite outside Damascus. She meets former prisoners and those forced to play a role in what has been called the regime's "machinery of death." Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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