Because Germany condemns Assad’s colonel for torture

14 January 20222 years ago babelfish

Colonel Anwar Raslan has been linked to the torture of over 4,000 people in the civil war in Syria, under direct orders from Assad. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

All the international press has given wide coverage to the fact that at the court of Kobkenz in Germany, Colonel Anwar Raslan, 58, has been linked to the torture of more than 4000 people in the Syrian civil war in a prison known as "Hell on Earth" .

In fact, in 2011 the colonel, following a direct order from Assad, allegedly repressed the protests against the Syrian regime with violence, imprisonment and then torture. From the documentation brought to court it appears that he committed 58 murders and tortured 4000 people for over a year, that is, from 2011 to 2012.

This ruling certainly demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that the Syrian political regime has perpetuated crimes against humanity against its own citizens. But what happened to Al-Khatib?

The underground detention facility is part of the “branch 251” of the General Security Directorate (GSD), one of Syria's four main intelligence agencies, and consists of two buildings in the central al-Khatib area of Damascus. According to witnesses and deserters, Raslan oversaw the torture of detainees as head of the investigation section of Branch 251 from April 2011, a month after the uprising against President Assad, until his defection in September 2012.

Syrian journalist Amer Matara, held in April 2011, told the people at the trial "to be tortured without any logic".

If this process was possible, it is not only for the courage of the witnesses and survivors who publicly denounced the incident, but it is also thanks to Wolfgang Kaleck, head of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights who brought the case to court. While there is no doubt that this ruling finally represents a victory for human rights, on the other hand we must try to look at this case in a much broader perspective. We wonder, in fact, if it is a victory in the full sense of the term against the crimes perpetuated against humanity or if it is not a Pyrrhic victory, since this sentence relates to events that occurred twenty years ago. ago and above all that the Syrian regime of Assad continues to practice these violations, supported and supported by numerous countries .

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/colonnello-anwar-raslan-siria-tortura/ on Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:16:43 +0000.