The National Commission for Detainees and Missing Persons held an event last Saturday to mark the twelfth anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. The event aimed to shed light on the plight of detainees and the forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the Assad regime.
The Commission hosted a number of children who lost their parents under torture or are still absent and detained in the prisons of the regime. The children wrote a collective message by hand on a piece of cloth bearing the pictures of their detained fathers, with which they formed an impressive illustration expressing their deep suffering and deprivation of their parents over the past years.
The Head of the National Commission for Detainees and Missing Persons, Salwa Aksoy, said that this event sheds light on a small part of the children who lost their parents in the prisons of the regime, and stressed that the issue of the detainees is an essential one in Syria.
Aksoy pointed out that these children have a cause that will never die, and added that these children study in all stages and specializations, and that their cause grows as they grow up. Aksoy also added that the children sent letters to the decision-makers, and considered that these letters are irrefutable evidence to be taken to hold accountable those who committed massacres and crimes against their parents.
(Source: SOC’s Media Department)
