Families in Ghouta still remember how their relatives died in agony from the 2013 nerve agent attack, which was one of this century's worst war crimes.
Victims of one of Bashar al Assad's worst atrocities are demanding he's hauled back from Moscow and put on trial for gassing more than 1,400 of their relatives. Assad's sarin attack in 2013 on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta was cold, calculating and nearly changed the whole way Britain and America handled his Syrian regime. Now he has been toppled there is an opportunity to bring the former president to justice, his victims hope.
Kamel lost his two brothers and parents and was put into a coma after becoming engulfed in the poison. 'I started seeing white around me, a thick powdery cloud of smooth, almost silky white smoke in the sky,' he said. Fadi arrived to find both parents, a brother and cousins dead. He told us the veins in his father's forehead had exploded as he died from the poisoning. 'We were in shock, we started crying. All around were dead bodies on the ground.
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