SNHR: 95,000 Forcibly-disappeared persons in Syria since 2011

SNHR: 95,000 Forcibly-disappeared persons in Syria since 2011
Entitled “A Tunnel with no End”, the report released by The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on the International Day of the Disappeared says that the unrestricted support by Iran and Russia has afforded the Assad regime to notably succeed in disappearing nearly 100,000 Syrian citizens and have complete control over their fate, as well as toying with the feelings of their families amid the lack of an active international will to help the Syrian people.

 The report issued on Friday (August 30) notes that detainees and forcibly-disappeared persons are subjected to extremely brutal and sadistic acts of torture. According to the report, 13,608 have died due to torture between March 2011 and August 2018.

While other parties, such as al Nussra Front, ISIS, the Democratic Union Party, and factions from the armed opposition, have subsequently committed patterns of arrest, enforced-disappearance, and torture, all of those parties haven’t reached even 10% of what the Assad regime has committed in terms of scale and quality.

The report draws upon SNHR’s archives which has been used to incidents and cases related to arbitrary arrest and enforced-disappearance since 2011, as this archive is updated and revised regularly. The report also contains 13 accounts for families and friends of victims who fallen to the crime of enforced-disappearance at the hands of the four parties to the conflict.

 The report notes that the Assad regime has recently tampered with the forcibly-disappeared file and acknowledged the death of 836 cases which were listed as death incidents. The report stresses that the Assad regime has yet to deliver the dead bodies of the dead detainees. According to the report, the crime of enforced-disappearance is still existing as long as the person in question hasn’t been found, dead or alive, as all of those are still considered forcibly-disappeared per the international law, and the main accused in those crimes is the Assad regime.

 “States of the civilized world should care about the fate of 100,000 Syrian citizens who have fallen into oblivion. This horrifying figure and its direct implications on hundreds of thousands of families should be a wake-up call to the world consciousness that should act to put an end to this national Syrian catastrophe and hold anyone who was responsible for it accountable,” Fadel Abdul Ghany, chairman of SNHR, said.

The report documents that 95,056 persons are still forcibly-disappeared at the hands of the parties to the conflict in Syria from March 2011 until August 2018. 

Of those, the Assad regime is responsible for 85.9% of all enforced-disappearance cases in Syria to a total of 81,652 individuals, including 1,546 children and 4,837 women. 

The report stresses that the Assad regime has demonstrated a lack of commitment to the international agreements and treaties it ratified, in particular the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights. In addition, the Assad regime has violated the Syrian constitution itself as hundreds of thousands of detainees have been detained for many years with no arrest warrants or any charges. 

The report calls on the Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to discuss this critical matter that threatens the fates of nearly 95,000 individuals and terrorizes the whole Syrian society.

In addition, the report urges the Security Council to act to stop torture and deaths due to torture inside Assad regime detention centers, and save whoever detainees left as quickly as possible, and take action under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations to protect the detainees from a certain death inside detention centers.

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