Ruth Sherlock
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 1 Jul
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You know, he was still quite breathless in his recovery from this double pneumonia disease. So he hadn't been able to speak very much publicly. But the message that he had at this Easter Mass, in some ways, this is his last message. And this, in some ways, really went to the heart of what his papacy was about. He focused a lot on conflict and on the plight of the poor.
Pope Francis was the first Latin American pope. And in this speech, he spoke about the conflict happening in Israel and Gaza. So he talked about people wounded by conflict and called for an end to this endless outbursts of violence. He said, I appeal once again for immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. He's been calling church in Gaza every day for months.
And he again appealed to the international community, said, you know, come to the aid of a starving people that aspires to a future of peace.
It will happen in between four and five days. And he's tried to strip away a lot of the pomp from papal funeral. In fact, he's asked to be buried in a simpler casket. In the past, he said that the Pontus funeral should be that of a shepherd and disciple of Christ and not of a powerful man of this world.
Thank you.
The European Commission says it's trying to better prepare Europeans to deal with natural disasters, cyber attacks and geopolitical crises, including the possibility of a war. Europe in recent years has dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. the conflict in Ukraine and extreme weather events linked to climate change.
The document says, quote, none of the major crises of the past years were isolated or short-lived. Europe cannot afford to remain reactive. Among the many recommendations listed, the Commission says Europeans should begin to stockpile food and identify possible shelters to protect them in a crisis. Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Rome.
There's these metal gates between the walls, but it's barricaded by a mound of earth. But the gate has opened a crack, so we're going to climb over the mound to get inside.
There's a bone here. The weather has worn a lot of it away. It's white and partially eroded. I just want to take a moment and
really think about what we're doing here because it's easy to not comprehend the truth of what this place could be but when you hear the stories you hear every day truck after truck after truck piled high with corpses of people who'd been executed or died in detention under the Syrian regime were brought here and it's chilling to think that many of those people might be under this ground
I mean, it was just surreal. Just even being able to cross the border from Lebanon would have been, you know, almost impossible for a Western journalist. Syria had become such a closed country. But just a couple of days after the fall of the regime, we did just that. We drove across and, you know, we were stamped out of the Lebanese side.
And on the Syrian side, we just passed an empty immigration office. Nobody even looked at my passport. By the customs, there was a group of rebel fighters, but they kind of just grinned at us and waved at us as if they even couldn't believe what was happening. And then it's a short drive to Damascus, just over 40 minutes.
And on the road, we passed these burnt out tanks and military uniforms that had been discarded by soldiers as they were fleeing. And the air in the capital, it was thick.
thick and heavy and toxic partly from the fires that people had set alight in kind of government buildings and then also from the dust from the debris caused by israeli airstrikes they were bombing hitting military installations that used to belong to the regime because there is so much uncertainty about who the new leadership and what comes next
Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, you know, these massive, terrible human rights abuses have been widely documented, but it is really something else to be able to go to these places, to these dozens of intelligence branches and see where torture happened. And I think it's only now that we're really getting a clearer picture of how many people were killed in this system.
Shortly after I visited the mass grave near Damascus, Stephen Rapp, a former US ambassador at large for war crimes, he went to the same location and he says the Syrian regime had established a, quote, machinery of death and that nothing like this has been seen, quote, since the Nazis arrived.
One of the first places we headed to straight after we crossed the border was Sednaya prison. Tens of thousands of Syrians were jailed there, people suspected of opposing the regime. And under Assad, you wouldn't speak about this place in public. Even if you had, for example, a relative inside, you'd just avoid any association with it.
But now people were crowding into the prison, this enormous complex surrounded by high walls and barbed wire fences on a hill north of Damascus. And they were going because they were going to look for people who'd been jailed there.
Hundreds of people walk up the snaking dirt paths that lead up the hill to Sadnaya prison. Many are immaculately dressed, as if they hope that today they might finally meet their loved one that disappeared here. Nader Sabsabi says his brother was detained in 2012. He searches a handwritten ledger he's found with names of the detainees for clues.
My brother went out of the house to buy bread. He was stopped at a checkpoint, and that's all we know. Sabsebi has made the hours-long journey from his home city of Dera to here every day since the regime fell to search.
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