(Zaman Al Wasl)- Anger sparked in the southern Sweida province over death reports of two Druze detainees in the Security chambers, local news site said Tuesday.
Raslan Bu Sa'ab (39) and his brother Sari (33) were fighting along with the Free Syrian Army until 2018. But when the Russian-brokered reconciliation deals reached in southern Syria they lay down their weapons and surrended to the regime army, according to Sweida 24.
After 20 months of detention, the newly revealed documents by the Civil Registry Office showed that two brothers were registered dead, such a shock sparked the anger among the Druze community and on the social media.
Sweida province is the heartland of the country's Druze minority, which made up roughly three percent of Syria's pre-war population -- or about 700,000 people.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the U.N. political chief said last August that more than 100,000 people in Syria have been detained, abducted or gone missing during the eight-year conflict, with the regime mainly responsible.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said nearly 14,000 were killed under torture by the Syrian regime.
According to The New York Times, war crimes investigators with the nonprofit Commission for International Justice and Accountability have found government memos ordering crackdowns and discussing deaths in detention. The memos were signed by top security officials, including members of the Central Crisis Management Committee, which reports directly to Bashar al-Assad.
A military intelligence memo acknowledges deaths from torture and filthy conditions. Other memos report deaths of detainees, some later identified among photos of thousands of prisoner corpses smuggled out by a military police defector. Two memos authorize “harsh” treatment of specific detainees.
Eight years of war in Syria have killed 560,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6 million as refugees to neighboring countries.
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