The Black Box, a Report Released by Syrian Commission for Transitional Justice

Ammar Tabbab, director of the Syrian Commission for Transitional Justice and director of the file of enforced disappearance said that the report released by the Commission and titled “The Black Box” recorded more than 60,000 cases of forced disappearances in Syria, among them 6,722 people who were liquidated including, 1,348 children and 1,511 women. He also said that “while Syria is not the first country where forced disappearance are recorded, it is the only country where an entire community has been forcibly disappeared,” citing the regime forces’ closing off of whole areas near Wadi al-Daif army base in Idlib province. Survivors who managed to flee those areas were not given the chance to know the fate of their loved ones. (Source: Coalition)