Old wounds and new energy in Syria's 'capital of the revolution'
The BBC first interviewed Baraa after she fled the Old City of Homs as a child nearly a decade ago/ "Even now, I look back and wonder how we survived this nightmare," Baraa quietly reflects. Now 20 years old, the university student joined the joyous celebrations engulfing the streets of Syria last Sunday at the end of Bashar al-Assad's rule. Her two sisters, Ala and Jana, nod in agreement as we sit, squeezed together on this cold winter's day, on an old lumpy sofa in their humble home in Homs. Their white-bearded father, Farhan Abdul Ghani, ...
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