@SyriaIrl

10 Feb, 12 tweets, 8 min read

Attending session with extremely courageous survivors & family members of #SyriasDisappeared

5 organisations have come together - based on their shared suffering & hope - to demand & explain what is needed to achieve #TruthandJusticeFirst in Syria

@irishmissionun @NorwayUN

Ahmed Helmi from @taafi_SY, a survivor of Assads detention system speaks

This Charter describes the justice victims aspire to. The victims are at the core, they are the cornerstone, they have a central role as active actors not just victims or witnesses.

#TruthandJusticeFirst

Charter goes beyond demands to propose solutions & practical mechanisms to reveal fate of the Disappeared, with victims at heart of any work for justice & accountability

@simoncoveney @irishmissionun @mona_juul

Ahmad Helmi tells of his own experience ⬇️

Maryam lost her son to Assad detention. Detention must end & all detainees must be released. Enough waiting, this suffering has gone on too long. The international community has not honoured its commitments

The Charter is a roadmap for holding perpetrators accountable

@fadwa_mahmoud of @FamiliesSyria tells of her son Maher & husband AbdulAziz, missing for 9 yrs. Today is Maher's 40th birthday.

@fadwa_mahmoud herself spent 2 yrs in detention. In prison she fortified herself with the thought she was making a better Syria for her children. Now her nightmare is that her grandchildren will also live in a Syria of Disappearance

We will not get tired, we will not despair

@khalil_alhaj @Massar12332909

Our loved ones were kidnapped bec they were first to stand up to ISIS

@snhr 8,140 kidnapped by ISIS are missing

Mass graves are being excavated without care

ISIS members back in their own countries not being held accountable for crimes in Syria

@SaydnayaPrison
Diab Serrih survivor of Sednaya 'the Human Slaughterhouse'

Truth has been ignored, not believed. We want the truth to be heard. We want a future where these atrocities do not continue. Numbers documented are only the tip of the iceberg

Diab Serrih

The charter is the voice of mothers standing up for their children, of victims buried in mass graves or victims buried underground in prisons. This Charter will act as a reference for all those working towards the future of Syria.

@RamBhandariNEP of @theICTJ

International solidarity with the victims and families of disappearance in Syria, victims & survivors must be at the centre of the process of justice

Marika Wierda of @DutchMFA

Netherlands taking a case against Assad
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'We talk about victims, about justice. With this charter victims are talking for themselves. You yourselves will be setting the accountability agenda to achieve real & concrete results as quickly as possible'

Catherine Marchi Uhel of
International, Impartial & Independent Mechanism to assist in the Investigation & Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes Charter & working with these groups

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lexpress.fr/actualite/mond…

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