An important new light on the bloody inner workings of his security and intelligence agencies has been cast by a leaked trove of 174,000 documents from the old regime’s files, including some 33,000 pictures of emaciated cadavers, 10,200 of them detainees of the regime. Like the Nazi guards’ records in the death camps, or in Cambodia the Khmer Rouge dossiers in the torture house of Toul Sleng, these more than vividly reflect the blind loyalty, and sense of absolute impunity, of the regime’s minions. He presided over Syria during the country’s 13-year bloody civil war during which about half a million people were killed , according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights ,including more than 200,00 civilians at the hands of the regime and more than 160,000 were forcibly “disappeared” by the state or its agents between 2011 and last year.
Published at: 2025-12-04 21:51:00
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