The Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism Association (SIRAJ) and El País co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. Ahmad* is 11 and has lost his hacksaw - or rather, it was stolen by a man whom he recognises as a former soldier of the toppled Syrian regime. Only now, the man haunts the ruins of Damascus’s periphery with a pistol, clad in civilian clothes. Without the hacksaw, the day’s haul is paltry.