Thread by @snhr

Tweets series of what have been highlighted in the report "The #SyrianRegime, Through Its Security Services and State Institutions, Controls the Incidents of Registering the Deaths of Victims Killed/’Disappeared’ in the Armed Conflict Since March 2011"
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1/3 The Syrian regime and the other parties to the conflict have killed hundreds of thousands of #SyrianCitizens through bombing operations with various types of weapons...

... The Syrian Network for Human Rights (#SNHR) has documented since March 2011 to date the deaths of 228,893 civilians at the hands of the conflict parties and the controlling forces in #Syria between March 2011 and June 2022...

The families of the vast majority of these victims, many of whom were killed many years ago, accounting for approximately 88% of the civilian death toll, have not yet been able to obtain a death certificate to confirm their loved ones’ demise,...

even if the death certificate does not mention the cause of death or name the responsible party, or even gives another reason for the death, for fear of the security repercussions on the family members, who desperately need these death certificates.

2/3 The Syrian regime and the other parties to the conflict have arrested at least 154,398 individuals, 111,907 of whom have been #ForciblyDisappeared. Throughout the years of detention, the detainees are subjected to the most horrific methods of #torture,...

... which have caused the deaths of 14,464 due to torture. All these statistics are confirmed by the data on the SNHR database.
A very limited number of families have obtained death certificates issued by military hospitals...

... All of these certificates give the cause of death for the disappeared person/detainee as ‘cardiac arrest’ or ‘cessation of breathing’, based on which implausible claims the families subsequently register the death at the civil registry departments.

3/3 On August 10, 2022, the Minister of Justice in the Syrian regime government issued Circular No. 22
This new circular proves that the Syrian regime continues to issue legislation, laws, and decrees that violate the fundamental rights of Syrian citizens...

... It also opens the door for the victims’ families to register the death of their loved ones, but ensures that this is done under the supervision and absolute control of the regime’s security services, and by giving a false cause of death,...

... since it is impossible to obtain any official death certificate stating the true cause, i.e., that the Syrian regime arrested the victim,...

who subsequently died due to torture in a regime detention center, or that he or she was killed by the Syrian regime’s bombing with #BarrelBombs or #ChemicalWeapons.