The International Day of Sacrifice - No Enforced Disappearances... More than 112,000 Enforced Disappeared Persons in Syria

ARK News… The Syrian Network for Human Rights issued its twelfth annual report on enforced disappearance in Syria, on the occasion of the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance, in which it said that no less than 112,713 people, including 3,105 children and 6,698 women, are still under enforced disappearance in Syria since March 2011.

According to the report, all parties to the conflict have participated in the practice of enforced disappearance as a means to terrorize society, create fear in it and strengthen control.

The report states that no less than 155,604 people, including 5,213 children and 10,176 women, are still under arrest/detention or enforced disappearance by the parties to the conflict and the controlling forces in Syria from March 2011 until August 2023, including 135,638 people in the custody of the Syrian regime, including 3,693 children. And 8,478 women, while no less than 8,684, including 319 children and 255 women, are still disappeared by the terrorist organization ISIS, and 2,514, including 46 children and 45 women, are still under detention or enforced disappearance by Hay ‘at Tahrir al-Sham.

It added: "No less than 4,064 people, including 364 children and 874 women, are still detained or forcibly disappeared by all factions of the armed opposition / the National Army, in addition to the presence of no less than 4,704 people, including 791 children and 524 women, who are still detained or disappeared." Forced detention by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

It confirmed that no less than 112,713 people are still under enforced disappearance at the hands of the parties to the conflict and the forces controlling Syria, including 96,103 at the hands of the Syrian regime, and 8,684 at the hands of ISIS, 2,162 of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. And 2,943 people are still with the various factions of the armed opposition / the National Army since 2011 until now in all the areas they controlled, and 2,821 people are still under enforced disappearance with the Syrian Democratic Forces.

The report called on the UN Security Council and the United Nations to work on revealing the fate of the forcibly disappeared in parallel or before the start of the rounds of the political process and to set a strict timetable for revealing their fate.

The United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances recommended increasing the number of workers working on the issue of enforced disappearances in the office of the Special Rapporteur on Enforced Disappearances in Syria. Due to the density and volume of cases of forcibly disappeared persons there.

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