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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Just a few hundred metres away in that same hospital were the bodies of people who'd been tortured to death by her husband's intelligence services.
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It's hard to fathom how far this woman had travelled from her comfortable home in London.
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Final thing really is, Asma al-Assad had really been the sort of... I want to know whether everything Osama's seen has given him deeper insight into human nature and how these atrocities are possible.
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How do you compute the fact that so many Syrians were involved in something so evil?
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I've wondered about this too.
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Torturing someone is very different from shooting them.
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It's far more personal and intimate.
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How did the Assad regime create the kinds of people capable of carrying out this brutality?
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I've spoken to experts who've interviewed lots of people who worked in Syrian detention centres and prisons, and they say that inside those dungeons, prisoners and guards were stripped of their humanity.
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Moral rules no longer applied.
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And for the jailers, the detainees' body became nothing more than an object to be acted upon.
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And there was another important but really quite banal aspect to it all.
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The regime paid the jailers' salaries.
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That's why for a summer, a lot of the blame lies with those who helped prop up the regime's coffers.
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Asma and those working for her had taken over large parts of the economy and they were siphoning off international aid and using the money to prop up the regime financially.
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But she was helping the regime in other, darker ways too.
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There was a directive there to the orphanage not to release the children to any family or anyone coming asking for them.
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She said, those are the children of terrorists and that's none of your business.
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He was screaming, Mommy.
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And do you think Asma knew?
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