Massacre video reopens wounds for missing Syrians' families
ABC News
The Siyam family believed for many years that their adult son was being held at a government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago
BEIRUT -- For years, the Siyam family clung to hope they would one day be reunited with their son Wassim, who they believed was being held in a Syrian government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago.
That hope evaporated the moment they saw him in a newly leaked video: He was among dozens of blindfolded, bound men who, one by one, were shot and thrown into a trench by Syrian security agents.
“It shocked us to our core,” Siham Siyam said of the gruesome video, which was taken in 2013 and emerged late last month.
“They killed him in cold blood ... No mother can accept to see her child being harmed this way,” Siham told The Associated Press from Germany, where she now lives with her family.
