Assad may have fallen but the war continues on Syriawhere new data is formed after the developments of the last few days. The fears of a humanitarian crisis are more than intense, while the Red Crossmakes an anguished appeal to the relatives of the missing not to bury the dead.
Families of missing people in Syria should not give in to their desire to try to find and exhume the bodies of their relatives themselves as this may hinder their identification, the Red Cross has urged.
The issue of the missing is “central today but also in the future”, said the representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Christian Cardon, in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
“When these stages are carried out correctly, they make it possible to create a more peaceful climate in order to then move towards peace and reconciliation negotiations,” he explained.
100,000 disappeared
More than 100,000 people have disappeared in Syria during the conflict, mostly in the hands of the forces of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted on Sunday by a coalition of rebels led by the radical Islamist group, according to non-governmental organizations. Hayar Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Images on social media showed dozens of emaciated men, some being carried by their partners because they were too weak to stand, walking out of Sednaya prison on Sunday, which Amnesty International has called a “human slaughterhouse”.
As families search for their loved ones, dead or alive, “it must be ensured that cemeteries and other places where people could have been buried are respected,” said Cardon, a former head of protection activities at the International Committee of the Red Cross. .
At the same time, according to a report by ERT, there is widespread concern as living conditions are now even more difficult.
Food is hard to come by and most people, even if they find food, are unable to buy it. The price of bread is skyrocketing while there is almost no electricity during the day.
At the same time, thousands of Syrian refugees are returning to their homeland, after the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria.
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