(SNHR)- Families whose members have fallen a victim to the crime of enforced-disappearance avidly try to find information about their relatives and children which involved in many cases paying large sums of money to mafia-like organized networks that were the by-product of this catastrophe. However, only a very few were able to acquire merely information. The Syrian authorities, on the other hand, deny constantly anything of this sort, and not only they have yet to launch any investigation or hold any official accountable, but they protect officials and legalize the crime, if not being directly involved in it.
The report, which was released by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, notes that many Syrian families were shocked when they went to civil registration offices to finish a paperwork related to their children or relatives who have been forcibly disappeared at the hands of the Syrian regime for long times that can amount to years as they found out that their beloved ones have been written off as dead. The report says that such cases were notably frequent in the governorates of Hama, Damascus, Damascus suburbs, Latakia, Homs, and Hasaka.
According to the report, around 81,652 Syrian citizens were forcibly disappeared at the hands of the Syrian regime alone between March 2011 and June 2018, while around 13,066 victims died due to torture at the Syrian regime’s official and non-official prisons in the same period of time.
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