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In this Start Here On-The-Road , Sandra Gathmann travels to Syria to find out how the country is confronting its past and how people are trying to rebuild their lives after years of war.

Up to 300,000 people in Syria are missing and there are thought to be as many as 66 mass graves across the country. We meet Wafa Ali Mustafa as she faces up to the reality that her father, who’s been missing for 12 years, is most likely dead.

We go inside the newly opened Syrian Identification Centre, where forensic scientists are carrying out painstaking work to identify bodies. And in an exclusive interview, we introduce one of Syria’s “shadow warriors” – a lawyer who risked his life to help smuggle out 1.3 million documents, creating an arch

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