Some families say it is better to know and mourn. Others say finally learning what happened is worse than dying themselves.
Fida Al Waer, a Syrian artist and teacher living in Beirut, poses as she holds a mobile phone that displays pictures of her brother she says was identified among thousands of images, smuggled out of Syria by a former Syrian military photographer code-named Caesar, that show bodies of dead detainees in Syrian government detention facilities, in Beirut, Lebanon July 22, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
“If they had shot my son it would have been better to die with a bullet than go through this hell,” she said in Amman, where she and her husband have found sanctuary since fleeing Syria in 2013. Now, years after Caesar’s photos first came to public attention, they are back in the spotlight. The toughest U.S. sanctions yet came into force in June for alleged war crimes against the civilian population, under a law named after Caesar.
The state of the tortured, mutilated and starved bodies makes it hard to identify them, said Fadel Abdel Ghani, the Doha-based chairman of a group, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, which says it has identified 900 victims so far.The images first came to light in 2014, the year after Caesar defected, but after the sanctions were imposed they have been re-released on activists’ social media platforms, giving families a fresh chance to find missing loved ones.
Sara Kayyali, a lawyer and Syria expert at U.S-based Human Rights Watch who has researched the photos, says they make it impossible to deny the systematic use of torture in the Syrian security prison system.
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