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How a Syrian refugee risked his life to bear witness to atrocities. ⇒

   14 March 2012, early afternoon

A few hours before leaving his home in Syria to begin a new life in Canada, Mostafa picked up a kitchen knife and began cutting into his left arm near the elbow. The 24-year-old didn’t need a large wound, he told himself. The incision would only need to be two or three centimetres long and perhaps a centimetre deep — just big enough to slip a phone’s micro memory card inside.

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