CIJA´s Reports on Syrian Regime Available for Download
CIJA´s evidence-based reports detailing the Syrian Regime’s brutal response to the peaceful protests are now available for download in English and Arabic.
The three reports reveal critical details about the Assad Regime’s overall command and control structure, its incremental reliance on brutal paramilitary groups and its crackdown on the people of Homs. The analysis relies on over one million pages of evidence in the form of the Syrian government´s own internal orders, circulars and reports, some of which are published as annexes to the reports. The reports made available for download complement the online version published in 2023.
Behind the Curtain: Unravelling the Bureaucracy of Syria’s Machinery of Death, December 2023
Torture. Mass arrests. Murders. Enforced disappearance. The Syrian Regime’s justified its use of force against civilians including many children, as a means to protect national security from what they characterised as “armed terrorist groups.” But the Regime’s own documents paint a different picture. This report reveals how the Regime formulated and then implemented policies to forcefully suppress opposition activity from early 2011. Through their own documents, it portrays a narrative of unhinged power, an intricate web of orders, instructions, circulars, reports and studies that flowed through the chains of command laying bare the extreme measures to which the Regime would resort to maintain its iron grip on the nation.
The Strangulation of Homs , September 2023
This is the story of the Syrian Regime’s strangulation of Homs, a city that gave birth to the revolution and to many of its fallen heroes, including CIJA’s deputy chief of investigations Mustafa. Told through a small selection of the Regime’s own documents, secured by CIJA’s investigators, this report reveals the premeditated manner in which the Syrian Regime quashed the Homsis’ hopes of democracy, from the first days of protest through to the siege of Baba Amro.
Assad’s Ghosts Unmasked, July 2023
For years, the crimes committed by the Shabbiha were ascribed to shadowy paramilitary gangs whose affiliation to official Syrian Regime structures could not be ascertained. But CIJA evidence shows a clear linkage between these militia groups and the Regime’s chain of command, demonstrating the state’s incremental reliance on these brutal gangs to enforce the governments’ crackdown on peaceful protesters and later, to attack the civilian population.