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‘The Syrian gulag was primarily aimed at demobilizing political society’

Uğur Ümit Üngör, an expert on the Holocaust and genocides at the University of Amsterdam, speaks to L’Orient-Le Jour about Assad’s prison system.

‘The Syrian gulag was primarily aimed at demobilizing political society’

Men search the underground tunnels of Sednaya prison in Syria, hoping to find survivors after the fall of the Assad regime, on Dec. 10, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/OLJ)

Since the fall of the Assad regime, news outlets around the world have shed light on the central role and exceptional brutality of the prison system developed under the rule of the ousted family. Uğur Ümit Üngör, a specialist in the Holocaust and...
Since the fall of the Assad regime, news outlets around the world have shed light on the central role and exceptional brutality of the prison system developed under the rule of the ousted family. Uğur Ümit Üngör, a specialist in the Holocaust and...