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Mansour Omari
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10.0Documentary investigating how tens of thousands of men, women, and children have disappeared because of the Assad regime within a network of clandestine detention centres.
Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad
2017
Upon his release from prison, Mansour Omari, a Syrian POW and torture survivor, risked his life by writing the names of his fellow cellmates in blood and rust on scraps of cloth and sewing them into his shirt. The film follows Omari, now in exile, as he travels to Holocaust memorial sites in Germany and reflects on how to bring attention to the brutal regime he escaped. Along with the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, he is preparing to display the cloths so that the names of his 82 cellmates will not be forgotten. Warning: Graphic images
82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us
2018
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2010s · 2 titles
10.0Documentary investigating how tens of thousands of men, women, and children have disappeared because of the Assad regime within a network of clandestine detention centres.
Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad
2017
Upon his release from prison, Mansour Omari, a Syrian POW and torture survivor, risked his life by writing the names of his fellow cellmates in blood and rust on scraps of cloth and sewing them into his shirt. The film follows Omari, now in exile, as he travels to Holocaust memorial sites in Germany and reflects on how to bring attention to the brutal regime he escaped. Along with the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, he is preparing to display the cloths so that the names of his 82 cellmates will not be forgotten. Warning: Graphic images
82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us
2018