Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're real places with real people, and the human cost of it all just becomes all the more stark.
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Suburbs like this, Jobar, Kaboun, Tadamon, were for years controlled by rebels fighting the Assad regime.
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It's incredible how close they got to Damascus, to central Damascus.
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I just hadn't quite clocked that.
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It was so near.
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The battles that went on here, they would have been within earshot of the Assad department in the upmarket Malki neighbourhood, as well as the presidential palace up on the hill.
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Jobar was one of the last rebel strongholds near the capital to continue fighting.
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Eventually, the Syrian army, with the help of their Russian allies, recaptured the area in 2018.
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The entire population was evacuated, their belongings pillaged and stolen.
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Then the state helped loot the area, taking everything of worth, even the metal from the buildings, until only the concrete shells remained.
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There is not one single human possession to be seen anywhere in this entire town.
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Almost every wall is riddled with bullet holes and many of the floors of apartment blocks have pancaked down on top of each other.
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Today, Joe Barr is completely uninhabitable.
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It's one thing to read about the Syrian war.
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It's another thing to stand in a suburb that's still scarred by it and realise how little distance separated the seat of power from all this devastation.
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The war wasn't somewhere else far away from Asma's bubble.
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It was right here on her doorstep.
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And the thing that I keep coming back to is that
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This was not an equal fight.
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All the different groups that were fighting Assad, none of them had air power, not a single one of them.
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