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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He was involved with the Islamist group which ruled over an opposition enclave in the northwest of the country.
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This is before they marched down and took control of the country from the Assads.
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Up there, he remembers lots of occasions when the children of rebels were used to blackmail or harass their parents, trying to persuade them to hand themselves in to the regime.
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And he remembers the prisoner swaps.
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And Mortasem tells us something else, something that answers some of the questions I had before I came here.
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So it was being financed by the Syria Trust for Development, one of their institutions.
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He also tells us that Asma appointed the two women who used to be in charge of the orphanage.
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They're both now under investigation by the new Syrian government, so they're not here.
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But Motasem says we should speak to some of the carers, or mothers as they're called, who worked here when Asma was involved with this place.
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They'd call them crisis children.
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Anna is one of the senior mothers who's been taking care of kids here for years.
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We've changed her name, and this isn't her voice, but she remembers that from quite early on in the war, there started to be an unusual influx of children into the orphanage.
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I don't know whether to believe Anna when she says she didn't know what was really happening.
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After all, they referred to these kids as crisis children.
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But I appreciate it must be uncomfortable now trying to explain your role in something as awful as holding children hostage.
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Not that Anna would have been able to do much to stop what was happening.
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Sometimes babies who arrived at the orphanage without any clear identification were given new names.
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But it seems that those brought here by the intelligence services, children who often knew who they were, were also being given new names, presumably to hide their identities from families who might come looking for them.
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And the younger ones, who were too small to remember their parents, were sometimes given to Syrian families for adoption.
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As for the rest of the kids, the intelligence services eventually came back for many of them and took them away.
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