Syria's 'Capital of the Revolution'

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Syria's Homs looks to rebuild but old wounds remain open

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Homs was once called the "capital of the revolution" by peaceful protesters who first took to the streets in the spring of 2011 to call for change, before it turned into all-out war.

Baraa and her family were among a thousand civilians rescued from the Old City during a rare UN -supervised humanitarian pause in February 2014 .

They somehow survived the agonising two-year-long siege of the old quarter where Syrian troops enforced their first "surrender or starve" cordon in this merciless war.

Farhan and his daughters took us to see where they took cover during most of their time during the siege a shelter in the Jesuit monastery run then by the charismatic Father Frans der Lugt .

The current pastor Father Tony Homsy is taken by surprise when we suddenly appear with Farhan , flanked by his daughters, emotionally scrolling through his phone to find photographs from that time.

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