Friday, August 10, 2018

ARTICLE : Assad regime tortured 8,000 to death !

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Damascus released a list which stated that 8,000 people detained over the course of the seven-year civil war were dead, including academicians, journalists and civil servants !

After the Syrian regime’s years of silence about the fate of tens of thousands of people that rights groups say have been forcibly kidnapped in the war, authorities have begun quietly updating registers to acknowledge thousands of deaths.

Following the ongoing talks between Russia, Turkey and Iran in Astana to release detainees in regime prisons, Damascus released a list which stated that 8,000 civilians detained over the course of seven years were dead-- likely by torture-- including academicians, journalists and civil servants.

The regime has tried to conceal the massacre and torture by listing their cause of death as “heart attacks” and cited infectious diseases. Among the dead are 125 children and 63 women.

The listed names were registered in Aleppo, Homs, Daraa, Tartus, Idlib, Lattakia, Deir ez-zor, Raqqaa and Hasakah.

Tortured to death! 

Syrian Opposition Commander General Adib Shelaf allegedly said that more than 200,000 civilians have been disappeared in detention facilities belonging to the Syrian regime and that at least 40,000 were tortured to death in jails.

Shelaf stated, “The Syrian regime decided to covertly de-register those who were detained during the Syrian civil war due to a groundswell of international pressure. The regime noted the cause of deaths on official records as either ‘heart attack’ or due to ‘infectious diseases.’”

Syria’s Zaman al-Wasl newspaper and the Violations Documentation Centre in Syria have reported names of 8,000 prisoners who were tortured to death over the past seven years in regime jails in July.

The number of deaths based on regions is as follows:


1- Damascus suburbs: 1856
2. Daraa: 1283
3. Homs: 1253
4. Damascus: 870
5. Hama: 762
6. Idlib: 585
7. Aleppo: 473
8. Deir Ezzor: 450
9. Latakia: 154
10. Quneitra: 110
11. Raqqa: 50
12. Hasaka: 44
13. Tartus: 28
14. Swaida: 23

Ten victims of non-Syrian nationalities, and two of the victims were not affiliated with any nationality.

SOURCE:
Assad regime tortured 8,000 to death

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