Thousands of documents found in abandoned Syrian regime offices detail how regime sought to eliminate dissent at all costs
Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad speaks during an interview with Venezuelan state television TeleSUR in Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syrian state news agency SANA on September 26, 2013.
The report, titled "Walls Have Ears, An Analysis of Classified Syrian Security Sector Documents" and based on a sample of 5,000 documents, presents some of the most damning evidence of regime involvement — at the highest level — in the bloody crackdown on protesters, dissidents, and even foreign journalists in Syria.The documents also offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Assad's security agencies and how pervasively they monitored Syrians' everyday lives.
Another document, from the country's top intelligence agency, the National Security Office, identified a French journalist of Lebanese descent as an "instigator of protests" and barred her from entering the country. "This, combined with the nature of the orders — deployment of military units, surveillance, the use of lethal force, persecutions of the Kurds — all are proof a systematic regime practice, and can be used as evidence to establish both the Syrian regime responsibility and the individual criminal responsibility for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity," he added.
The Syrian regime, which typically does not comment on security issues nor responds to reports accusing it of human rights violations, justifies its crackdown by describing those who rose up against it as terrorists. Assad charges that the uprising was part of a conspiracy supported by the US and regional foes to oust him from power.
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