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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The bombs that were falling from the sky, the helicopters and the planes, all of those belonged to Assad and his allies.
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It's going to take so long for Syria to recover from this.
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When the regime took back control of Jobar, what was left of the 300,000 people who lived there scattered around Syria, neighbouring countries and across Europe.
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It's possible to trace some of them, but others are missing.
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It happens in war.
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People vanish.
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It's just that in Syria, there are a lot of missing people.
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Human rights groups have consistently cited a figure of more than 150,000 missing people.
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But the Syrian National Commission for Missing Persons has suggested the number could be double that.
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That means potentially hundreds of thousands of people whose families have no idea where they are or what happened to them, or even if they're alive or dead.
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Among them were lots of children.
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It's a horror that's hard to comprehend.
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And that's where asthma comes back into it.
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Because soon after the regime collapsed in 2024, rumours began circulating that Asma al-Assad, the first lady herself, had been involved in the disappearing of children.
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I'm Chloe Hajimotheo, and from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer, this is We Call Her Emma.
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On a dusty street in the suburbs of Damascus, Bissan Juma and her kids come out of their home to greet us.
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We're here because although Bissan didn't know asthma personally, their lives did become intertwined in a fascinating way.
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This Anne's in her mid-twenties, but she's so petite that if I didn't know better, I could have mistaken her for a child.
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That's partly because on the day we meet, she's wearing a full niqab, so her face is concealed.
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It's only her dark, steely eyes I can see.
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