The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that nearly 111,000 people have been forcibly disappeared in Syria since March 2011, the majority of whom by the Assad regime. It stresses that this act constitutes a crime against humanity.
In its 11th annual report on enforced disappearance in Syria marking the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Network stressed that at least 154,398 people, including 5,161 children and 10,159 women, are still under arrest or enforced disappearance in Syria.
The report indicated that among the total number of the forcibly disappeared persons, 135,253 people are held by the Assad regime, including 3,684 children and 8,469 women. It added that at least 8,684 people, including 319 children and 255 women, were disappeared by ISIS. Moreover, the report indicated that 2,373 people, including 46 children and 44 women, were detained and disappeared by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
The report added that at least 4,224 people, including 751 children and 523 women, were detained and disappeared by the PYD militia, while at least 3,864 people, including 361 children and 868 women, were detained and disappeared by other armed groups.
The Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC) on Tuesday said that enforced disappearance has been one of the Assad regime’s major tactics alongside murder, terrorism, repression, and mass forced displacement.
The SOC held the international community partially responsible for allowing the Assad regime to go unpunished despite the Caesar photos, the video of Al-Tadamon neighborhood, and the documentation of thousands of crimes that clearly indicate that the disappeared and detainees in the human slaughterhouses of the Assad regime are being subjected to the most severe methods of psychological and physical torture.
(Source: SOC’s media department)
