Families of disappeared individuals or victims of enforced disappearance holding portraits of their loved ones, on Nov. 27, 2018. (Credit: Hassan Assal/L'Orient-Le Jour)
It has been more than three months since the Assad regime fell on Dec. 8, 2024. Since then, the same question remains on the lips of families of the missing from Lebanon in Syria: What happened to their loved ones? The relatives of the missing or victims of forced disappearance since the civil war (1975-1990) and the Syrian occupation (1976-2005), or even after this period, expected to find their loved ones or at least to be informed about their fate after the liberation of prisoners with the fall of the regime.Since then, all eyes have been on the Independent National Commission in charge of the file, created in 2020 after the adoption in 2018 by Parliament of Law 105 on the missing and victims of forced disappearance. Ziad Ashour, the vice-president of this commission, provides an update for L’Orient-Le Jour.Have any missing persons or...
It has been more than three months since the Assad regime fell on Dec. 8, 2024. Since then, the same question remains on the lips of families of the missing from Lebanon in Syria: What happened to their loved ones? The relatives of the missing or victims of forced disappearance since the civil war (1975-1990) and the Syrian occupation (1976-2005), or even after this period, expected to find their loved ones or at least to be informed about their fate after the liberation of prisoners with the fall of the regime.Since then, all eyes have been on the Independent National Commission in charge of the file, created in 2020 after the adoption in 2018 by Parliament of Law 105 on the missing and victims of forced disappearance. Ziad Ashour, the vice-president of this commission, provides an update for L’Orient-Le Jour.Have any missing persons...
