![]() ![]() KHOULANI: If you heard about the initiative of flower and water. Speaking with me from Ireland, where she now lives, Khoulani says this is the price her family paid for peaceful opposition to the Syrian government. Three of those - Mohammed (ph), Majd and Abdelsattar - died in detention. SHERLOCK: Security forces imprisoned her sister Amina and four of her brothers. GHUFRAN KHOULANI: I feel sad that some countries start to normalize with Assad and to forget all the people who died and suffer under the regime. ![]() ![]() RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: For Syrians like Ghufran Khoulani, watching the regime be slowly rehabilitated is particularly painful. And now even countries that once opposed him are starting to deal with his government again, which raises the question, what about the Syrians who perished in the country's jails just for asking for democracy or those who fled the country in fear of reprisals for speaking out? NPR's Ruth Sherlock looks at whether diplomatic normalization will affect attempts to hold Syria accountable. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has held on through a decade of civil war seeming to prevail. ![]()
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