Christina Goldbaum
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92 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Apr
Christina Goldbaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We don't know for certain, but it seemed like maybe the guard had heard that the rebels were nearing the prison and thought that if he opened the prison cells and wore civilian clothes, he could blend in with prisoners leaving themselves and escape. So you go out, you see that everyone is leaving. Where do you go? What did you do?
He runs to an office within the prison, finds a photo of Bashar al-Assad, and burns it.
And in that moment, how would you describe how you felt?
I think the past week and a half has been a kind of whirlwind of emotions for Bilal and his family. I talked to his mom about this. For his mother, when you saw Bilal, tell me about that moment.
On the one hand, they are incredibly grateful and happy and overjoyed that they finally have one of their sons home, that he's okay, that he's with their family, that he's alive. And Bilal himself is overjoyed to be free, to be able to be with his family and be back in his home and not live in the perpetual fear of being beaten or tortured in prison.
But at the same time, I think with every day that's passed since the Assad government fell, his mom, his dad, Bilal, have all realized more and more that it's very unlikely his brothers are coming home.
And a few days after we went to Bilal's home, I talked to his father, who had sent a relative back to Sinai, and he had found a death certificate for one of his sons.
But there still isn't any other news of the other.
He was incredibly sad and crying, but at the same time, he was talking about how he wanted revenge for what happened to his sons. He told me the first time he went to Sinai, he wanted to burn it down. He wanted to find who did this to them and break their neck. He wanted some kind of justice for everything that his family had endured.
He was also incredibly angry about the fact that he still, even now, doesn't have answers.
They do. They have sent relatives back to Sidneya. They've talked to friends who've gone to other detention facilities and have rifled through the papers there. I think that until they find something concrete, until they know where their sons were buried, if they're both killed, and can hold them in their arms themselves, there isn't really a sense of closure.
That's what his father, what his mother kept coming back to, was wanting to have their bodies in their arms to know where they are and to be able to bury them themselves. Until that happens, their search will continue.
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