For Syrians in Lebanon,death brings a final indignity as the bodies of their loved ones are squeezed in along cemetery edgesThe graves of the children are easy to discern, little bumps on the ground squeezed in along the edges of the cemetery. A rectangle of four small concrete blocks is enough to encompass one child’s entire body.No names are carved in marble, and just overgrown,withered grass rustling in the breeze of the Bekaa Valley. In the cemetery named al-Rahma, meaning Mercy, and only one Syrian refugee child’s tombstone bears markings – an illegible name etched into the stone with a rough tool,the notice of a despairing parent. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com