
Syria Commission Says More Than 300,000 May Have Gone Missing Since 1970s
This is Beirut, 18/08 23:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Bashar al-Assad Hafez al-Assad Syria Commission for Missing Persons
The head of Syria's commission for missing persons said Monday the number of people who went missing during decades of Assad family rule and the civil war may have exceeded 300,000. Mohammed Reda Jalkhi, head of the commission created in May, said the body's mandate ranged from 1970, the year Hafez al-Assad took power, to the present day and had ...