• 30,000 are believed to have been killed in Saydnaya prison alone with 40 to 50 executions daily under the Assad regime.
• With 600,000 killed under the rulership of Bashar Al Assad to more than 150,000 detained including 5000 children.
Rebel leader Al-Jolani has said he will publish a list of former senior officials “involved in torturing the Syrian people” and has vowed to pursue war criminals and hold them to account.
This comes after atrocities in Saydnaya prison were exposed to the world with journalists, former detainees and witnesses coming forward to give testament.
Al-Jolani said on a post on Telegram:
“We will offer rewards to anyone who provides information about senior army and security officers involved in war crimes.”
Former deposed president, Bashar Al Assad and his family have fled to Russia according to a Kremlin source that spoke to the TASS news agency.
The Bashar regime killed more people since 2011 then Israel did since Israel’s existence
As the genocide in Gaza continues with more than 45,000 killed and majority of houses destroyed, it seems frantically absurd to believe that there could have been a greater tragedy that was forgotten on the international stage.
Yet, the official number of those dead amounts to more than 600,000 in Syria since Bashar Al Assad first fired upon peaceful protesters in 2011 with more than 150,000 still reported missing.
The number of those killed in Syria both directly by Assad or by the repercussions of Assad’s actions, far outnumber the deaths in Gaza and Palestine. More people have died in Gaza since October 7 then throughout all the wars Israel has fought with entire Arab countries yet in the last 13 years more people have died in Syria then those killed by Israel in the entirety of Israel’s existence. The worlds lack of focus and attention to the oppression in Syria before the recent rebel offensive became an undertone with multiple Muslim nations who once supported the rebels, starting to normalise relations with the Assad regime as if the families of the dead suddenly felt no pain and anguish.
According to a rebel leader, Ahmed al-Awda in Deraa province, where the incidents that led to the Assad protests first began, everyone in Syria has lost family.
He said to the BBC:
“We have been crying for days. You can’t imagine what we feel. Everyone here in Syria lost family. Everyone was suffering.”
There have been approximately 14 million people who have been displaced because of the Assad genocide that started in 2011.
Many of these people fled to neighbouring countries without jobs or livelihoods to support them, others fled to Europe where they were vilified by state institution and suffered horrific racist abuse.
Video of a Syrian schoolboy racially attacked in a school in England in 2019 with onlookers watching on
The end of the Assad regime has been met with huge joy in Syrian communities across the world with many already starting to return.
After 13 years of pain and anguish many of the 14 million refugees had to go through, the removal of Assad offers hope of a new beginning.
