叙利亚大马士革-编者按:这个故事包含了对暴力的生动描述。
数千名失踪叙利亚人的家人和朋友继续寻找那些被前总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权在长达14年的内战中失踪的人，获胜的叛军开始建立过渡政府。
人群聚集在首都大马士革的一家医院外，仔细观看从臭名昭著的赛义德纳亚监狱(曾被大赦国际形容为“人类屠宰场”)发现的残缺尸体的图像。
其中包括阿卜杜拉，他被告知他的兄弟在2013年被捕，并于2016年死亡。阿卜杜拉告诉美国广播公司新闻，他没有得到任何其他信息，后来他来到医院，希望能在死者中认出他的兄弟。
阿卜杜拉没有找到他哥哥的尸体。他告诉ABC新闻，他将在另一家治疗获释囚犯的医院继续寻找。
在医院的太平间里，一名男子在尸体中发现了他的儿子。他的父亲说，20岁的穆罕默德是一名政治犯，于10月份被拘留。安全部队还拘留了这位父亲，将他关押了60天，然后释放了他。
这名男子说，穆罕默德是在阿萨德政权引人注目的崩溃前两个月被杀的。这位失去亲人的父亲紧紧抱着他15岁的小儿子，告诉ABC新闻，尽管他失去了儿子，但他觉得未来会更光明。
据叙利亚人权网络估计，2011年至2024年间，约有157，000人消失在政权监狱和其他设施中。
医院太平间的一名法医告诉ABC新闻，他确认了大约37具尸体的身份，其中大部分被关押在赛义德纳亚监狱.
许多尸体有遭受酷刑的痕迹，许多人营养不良;医院的法医Sarah Melhem博士告诉ABC新闻，由于极度营养不良，一些尸体的肋骨之间几乎没有肌肉组织。
梅尔海姆说，一些被发现的尸体脸上有恐惧的表情，而另一些已经腐烂。
“这些是政治犯，所以这些囚犯可能在监狱里呆了很长时间，所以酷刑的迹象已经消失了，”梅尔赫姆说。
许多尸体都有被枪击的痕迹，有射入和射出的伤口。其他人有遭受酷刑的痕迹，包括瘀伤、伤口和伤疤。梅尔赫姆说，一些被发现的尸体脸上冻结着恐惧的表情，而另一些尸体已经腐烂。
“我有一个堂兄是政治犯，但我们对他一无所知，”梅尔赫姆说。“我们看不到他。他大约从2013年开始被捕，我们对他一无所知，”梅尔海姆说。
梅尔赫姆说，在阿萨德政权下，人们会因为简单的脸书邮报之类的事情而被拘留。
“我认为这是一个犯罪系统，所有叙利亚人都拒绝这个系统，但没有人(可以)说话。我们(没有)发言权，”梅尔赫姆说。
“在这个体系崩溃后，所有叙利亚人都在谈论他们的经历。他们都有过某人去世的经历，有人对他们采取了犯罪行动，”梅尔海姆说。
阿萨德政府上周末的垮台结束了大马士革与反政府武装之间长达14年的冲突。大马士革得到了俄罗斯和伊朗的支持，而反政府武装则得到了包括土耳其和海湾国家在内的外国的支持。
谁将领导下一届政府还不清楚。hayat Tahrir al-Sham——一个植根于基地组织的伊斯兰组织——领导了突袭，最终推翻了阿萨德。
HTS领导人Abu Mohammed al-Jolani的真名是Ahmed al-Sharaa，他发誓要惩罚那些被指控参与酷刑、杀戮和失踪的人，这些行为长期以来一直是阿萨德家族在叙利亚统治的特征。
“我们将毫不犹豫地追究参与折磨叙利亚人民的罪犯、杀人犯、安全人员和军官的责任，”乔拉尼在叛军军事行动指挥部电报频道发布的一份声明中说。
他补充说:“我们将追捕战犯，并要求他们离开他们所逃往的国家，以便他们受到应有的惩罚。”。
Syrians descend on Damascus hospital in search for country's missing
DAMASCUS, Syria --Editor's Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence.
Family members and friends of thousands of missing Syrians are continuing their search for those disappeared by former President Bashar Assad's regime across 14 years of civil war, as victorious rebel forces begin building a transitional government.
Crowds gathered outside a hospital in the capital of Damascus to pore over images of mutilated bodies recovered from the infamous Saydnaya prison -- once described by Amnesty International as a "human slaughterhouse."
Among them was Abdullah, who was told that his brother was arrested in 2013 and died in 2016. Abdullah told ABC News he had been given no other information then or since and that he came to the hospital in the hope of identifying his brother among the dead.
Abdullah did not find his brother's body. He told ABC News he would continue his search at another hospital where released prisoners were being treated.
In a morgue inside the hospital, one man found his son among the bodies. Mohammad, 20, was a political prisoner taken into custody in October, his father said. Security Forces also took the father into custody and held him for 60 days, before releasing him.
Mohammad was killed just two months before the spectacular collapse of Assad's regime, the man said. Holding his 15-year-old younger son close, the bereaved father told ABC News he feels there are brighter days ahead despite his loss.
Some 157,000 people disappeared into regime prisons and other facilities between 2011 and 2024, per an estimate by the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
A forensics doctor in the hospital morgue told ABC News he identified the bodies of about 37 people, most of whom were being held in theSaydnaya prison.
Many of the bodies had signs of torture and many of them suffered malnutrition; some of the bodies have almost no muscle tissue between the ribs due to extreme malnutrition, Dr. Sarah Melhem, a forensics doctor at the hospital, told ABC News.
Some of the recovered bodies have expressions of fear on the faces while others are decomposed, Melhem said.
"These are political prisoners, so these prisoners have maybe spent a long time in the prisons so the torture signs [have] dissolved," Melhem said.
Many of the bodies showed signs of being shot, bearing entry and exit wounds. Others had signs of torture including bruises, wounds and scars. Some of the recovered bodies have expressions of fear frozen on their faces, while others are decomposed, Melhem said.
"I have a cousin who was a political prisoner, but we don't know anything about him," Melhem said. "We don't see him. He was arrested from about 2013 and we don't know anything about him," Melhem said.
Under Assad, people were taken into custody for things as simple as a Facebook post, Melhem said.
"I believe that this is a criminal system and all of the Syrian people refuse the system but nobody [could] talk. We [didn't] have the right to speak," Melhem said.
"After this system fell down, all of the Syrian people are speaking a lot about their experience. All of them have an experience of somebody who died, somebody who have a criminal action on them," Melhem said.
The collapse of Assad's government last weekend ended 14 years of conflict between Damascus -- backed by Russia and Iran -- and a patchwork of anti-government forces, some supported by foreign nations including Turkey and the Gulf states.
Who will lead the next government remains unclear. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham -- an Islamist group which has its roots in al-Qaeda -- led the surprise offensive that eventually toppled Assad.
HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, whose real name is Ahmed al-Sharaa, has vowed to punish those accused of involvement in the torture, killings and disappearances that long characterized Assad family rule in Syria.
"We will not hesitate to hold accountable the criminals, murderers, security and army officers involved in torturing the Syrian people," Jolani said in a statement posted to the rebels' Military Operations Command Telegram channel.
"We will pursue war criminals and demand them from the countries to which they fled so that they may receive their just punishment," he added.
