The crowd at an event in Damascus commemorating the first anniversary since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad were moved to tears as they listened to the testimonies of former child survivors of the war. President Ahmad al-Sharaa was visibly moved to tears, standing and giving applause before the president took to the stage to embrace the speakers. Among them was Ali Mustafa al-Mohammed, who became a symbol of the conflict as a child from a video of him crying out “Bashar al-Assad killed us, what di