@sallyhayd excellent article
'Remembering the 100,000 who have disappeared in Syria’s 11 years of war'
(Note: True number of #SyriasDisappeared probably a multiple of 100,000)
irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/0…
'Remembering the 100,000 who have disappeared in Syria’s 11 years of war'
(Note: True number of #SyriasDisappeared probably a multiple of 100,000)
irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/0…
'Fadwa Mahmoud is preparing to be reminded of her own private tragedy.
September 20th will mark 10 years since the disappearance of her husband Abdulaziz al-Khair & her son Maher Tahan who were taken from a car outside Damascus airport in 2012'
& have not been seen since
September 20th will mark 10 years since the disappearance of her husband Abdulaziz al-Khair & her son Maher Tahan who were taken from a car outside Damascus airport in 2012'
& have not been seen since
'They are among 100,000+ people missing in Syria’s prison system since the war there began 11 yrs ago
A report from UN sec general António Guterres backs yrs of calls by victim & survivor groups to set up a dedicated mechanism to clarify what happened to Syria’s missing people'
A report from UN sec general António Guterres backs yrs of calls by victim & survivor groups to set up a dedicated mechanism to clarify what happened to Syria’s missing people'
Mahmoud told me that they are hoping one day there will be “at least some information for some families. Even if it’s not enough & even if it’s not everything.”
“If there was no hope that something will come out of this we wouldn’t even bother working on it & advocating for it”
“If there was no hope that something will come out of this we wouldn’t even bother working on it & advocating for it”
'The report notes: “the leadership, strength & courage of the families whose right to know & struggle to learn the fate & whereabouts of their loved ones remain the driving force behind this initiative”
Among them is Mahmoud’s organisation @FamiliesSyria Families for Freedom'
Among them is Mahmoud’s organisation @FamiliesSyria Families for Freedom'
“Ireland is one of the countries that we’re counting on in our advocacy effort. We know & we expect that Ireland will be strongly on our side”
They want Ireland to help convince countries that may not naturally support the mechanism to get behind it in the UN General Assembly'
They want Ireland to help convince countries that may not naturally support the mechanism to get behind it in the UN General Assembly'
@sallyhayd
'I thought back to 2014 when I was an intern on Christiane Amanpour’s CNN show & we broke the story of the Caesar photos, smuggled out of the country by a Syrian military photographer, which documented systemic torture in Syria’s prisons'
cnn.com/2017/03/21/mid…
'I thought back to 2014 when I was an intern on Christiane Amanpour’s CNN show & we broke the story of the Caesar photos, smuggled out of the country by a Syrian military photographer, which documented systemic torture in Syria’s prisons'
cnn.com/2017/03/21/mid…
Fadwa Mahmoud
“We are in solidarity 100% with the Ukrainian people. We know what they’re going through. We have been through exactly the same.
We realise that our cause has dropped in the priorities of the international community & that’s what we are working on”
“We are in solidarity 100% with the Ukrainian people. We know what they’re going through. We have been through exactly the same.
We realise that our cause has dropped in the priorities of the international community & that’s what we are working on”
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