The investigator in Syria had made the drive perhaps a hundred times, always in the same battered truck, never with any cargo. It was forty miles to the border, through eleven rebel checkpoints, where the soldiers had come to think of him as a local, a lawyer whose wartime misfortunes included a commute on their […]
Stealing the Possessions of Families: A Systematic Policy with Official Approval
Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, persistent reports have documented the looting of household possessions by regime forces. This takes place particularly in areas in which the original population has been displaced and in which burglary operations seem to be carried out in a systematic and organised manner, appearing to be a formal approval […]