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Calls for justice and accountability in Syria grow after Assad's fall

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New Syrian authorities promise justice for crimes under the Assad regime.

Many have suffered losses of every kind in the civil war.

Umm Mazen's two sons were arrested in the first years of the uprising.

Her third son, Ahmed , spent three years in the red block for political prisoners in that byword for brutality, Saydnaya prison.

Videos have circulated of brutal summary justice being meted out to some former officials.

New authorities have told Syrians not to take matters into their own hands.

There have been raids and arrests - and some of those who escaped across the border to Lebanon or Iraq have been returned.

But there remains a big question over whether the justice system is capable of being reconfigured to take on this challenge.

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73

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70

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37

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informal

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English

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42

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short-lived

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