BEIRUT ¨C The Syrian police stormed her house and dragged her husband away. Her eldest son died in a rain of Syrian government shells on her hometown. So like millions of other Syrians, Hanadi Hafisi fled the country with plans to return when the war ended.
A decade later, she¡¯s still a refugee in Turkey, where her work at a center that treats war injuries exposes her to a constant display of the human destruction wrought by President Bashar Assad of Syria and his Russian backers: paralysis, missing hands and legs, and deep trauma that leaves her patients asking why such disasters consumed their lives.
¡°I don¡¯t know what to tell them when they ask me whether they will reach justice,¡± said Hafisi, 46. ¡°Seriously, what to tell them? That Bashar will be held accountable? That he will face trial? Of course not.¡±
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