Since the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad, it was believed that over 130,000 people have gone missing in Syria. Because of this, families have suffered through pain and uncertainty for the past years.
To solve this, on Thursday, the U.N. The General Assembly voted to create an international institution to search for all the missing citizens in Syria.
It was believed that the missing are languishing in government prisons, or non-state armed groups took them. It could also be that they were buried in mass graves. The possibility of where they went missing was endless.
Families, Syrian civil society organizations, whistleblowers, and U.N agencies helped the institution by giving them the information they had, hopefully helping them leading to the answer of the missing.
In the Damascus suburb of Tadamon in 2013, a video was shot and revealed what happened to dozens of Syrians that were missing.
In the video, it showed that security agents from Syria were leading men that were blindfolded into a pit, along with shooting them and setting their bodies on fire. It was a tragedy knowing this, but the video allowed a few families to finally understand how their loved ones went missing.
Throughout the next few years, many new reasons for why families were missing were found. Some of them were because they were kidnapped by sectarian militias during its 1975-90 civil war.
Because the Islamic State fighters were the problem of missing families, they were captured and held in a prison that was run by Kurdish-led forces. The Syrian citizens hoped they would never do such a thing again.
President Bashar Assad said that all the people he detained were killed under his custody.
To solve this, on Thursday, the U.N. The General Assembly voted to create an international institution to search for all the missing citizens in Syria.
It was believed that the missing are languishing in government prisons, or non-state armed groups took them. It could also be that they were buried in mass graves. The possibility of where they went missing was endless.
Families, Syrian civil society organizations, whistleblowers, and U.N agencies helped the institution by giving them the information they had, hopefully helping them leading to the answer of the missing.
In the Damascus suburb of Tadamon in 2013, a video was shot and revealed what happened to dozens of Syrians that were missing.
In the video, it showed that security agents from Syria were leading men that were blindfolded into a pit, along with shooting them and setting their bodies on fire. It was a tragedy knowing this, but the video allowed a few families to finally understand how their loved ones went missing.
Throughout the next few years, many new reasons for why families were missing were found. Some of them were because they were kidnapped by sectarian militias during its 1975-90 civil war.
Because the Islamic State fighters were the problem of missing families, they were captured and held in a prison that was run by Kurdish-led forces. The Syrian citizens hoped they would never do such a thing again.
President Bashar Assad said that all the people he detained were killed under his custody.
