Death is Not the Worst that can happen... it is also the waiting !
Enforced disappearance is one of the most serious human rights violations due to its impact on the disappeared person, their relatives, their community, and, ultimately, society as a whole.
Its impact does not end with the end of the conflict. Since the 1970s, the Syrian government has used enforced disappearance as a strategy to eliminate opponents, terrorize, and silence dissent. It has been the government’s most important weapon in crushing the popular movement against it. Enforced disappearances resulting from arbitrary detention, abduction, deprivation of liberty, denial of protection under the law, and the right to security and freedom from torture and other inhuman treatment have been systematically practiced—amounting to a crime against humanity.
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