References to the “Onion Factory,” an abandoned farm once used by Syrian intelligence agents as an interrogation center and prison for Lebanese detainees, still send a shudder through residents of this Sunni town.
But today, nearly eight years after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad withdrew his army from Lebanon, the Onion Factory has become home to a new generation of Assad regime victims – an extended family of about 60 Syrian refugees who have fled the bloody conflict roiling Syria to find desperate sanctuary in makeshift huts around the grim former prison.
