Thirteen years after sarin gas killed hundreds of civilians in Ghouta, a hospital tunnel that once served as an evacuation route beneath the besieged Damascus suburb has been transformed into a museum. The space preserves not only physical evidence of one of the deadliest chemical weapons attacks of the Syrian civil war, but the moral weight of a government's decision to turn weapons of mass destruction against its own people. In a country still navigating the aftermath of prolonged conflict, the museum stands as an act of collective refusal — a determination that what happened in August 2013
Ghouta tunnel transformed into museum 13 years after Assad's sarin attack
The 2013 sarin gas attack on Ghouta killed hundreds of civilians, with thousands more wounded during the government's prolonged siege of the rebel-held area.
War & Conflict