Mother hopes Assad pays for son's death

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Mother whose son's death inflamed Syrian revolution on Assad's downfall

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Hamza al-Khatib , 13 , was tortured and mutilated in Deraa , Syria , in May 2011 .

His death, and the torture of other local teenagers for writing anti-Assad graffiti, sparked widespread protests.

The fall of Assad has lifted the lid on decades of repression in Syria , and much of Deraa was out on the streets on Sunday , giddy with freedom, as rebel fighters took the capital Damascus and Assad fled.

In Deraa 's cemetery, the plaque on Hamza 's grave lies in pieces - broken by a government tank shell.

Now he wants free elections, believing that the Syrian people will never again choose anyone who would become a dictator.

Behind it, the graves tell a story of 13 years of fighting: an air strike, battle, a whole family killed in their home.

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