WORLD_ SYRIA_ Syria's unknown victims: the thousands missing or dead in regime custody

Syria's unknown victims: the thousands missing or dead in regime custody

Among the more than 100,000 dead in the three years since the Syrian civil war began are at least 11,000 disappeared into the Assad regime's custody. But the true number may be much higher, the Guardian finds in interviews with released prisoners and relatives of the missing

Mona Mahmood
theguardian.com, Wednesday 12 March 2014 01.00 AEST




Faced by war and intimidating bureaucracy, there seems little hope in sight for relatives of those missing in Syria. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Syria's three-year civil war has left more than 100,000 dead and uprooted 9 million people from their homes. But perhaps the most chilling statistic of all is the number who are missing, who have disappeared into the intimidating interior of the regime's "security branches", where interrogation and torture are carried out.

Numbers are hard to pin down. Last month, the Guardian reported that 11,000 Syrians had been killed while in the custody of regime security forces. A photographer from the Syrian military police defected with 55,000 images of 11,000 victims. He described a bureaucratic system in which the disappeared were executed, documented and then secretly buried in a rural area.

But many more remain unaccounted for. Relatives describe a heartbreaking, desolate search through some of the most terrifying organs of state power to try to find a trace of loved ones. And those who have been released tell of dismal conditions of detention, of dozens of people crammed into tiny cells, of long days unfed and unwatered, waiting for the next round of interrogation in which subjects are given electric shocks or hung from the walls.

The Guardian has spoken to the mother of a 17-year old boy who is still missing, the nephew of a man who died in captivity and three released prisoners.

*** Ahmed, a father of two, was killed in a regime prison according to his nephew, Abu Muhammed, who tells the story.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/11/syria-victims-missing-dead-regime-custody-civil-war-assad



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