Vanished without a trace: Inside the desperate search for US citizens disappeared in Syria
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The former US Marine was abducted in government-controlled areas while reporting on Syria’s civil war in 2012 and is among a “handful” of Americans who remain missing, including psychotherapist Majd Kamalmaz, who vanished in 2017. We need answers.” After 12 years, Austin Tice is the longest-held US journalist in history Like so many people in Syria, Tice was detained and held incommunicado – vanishing almost without a trace. “The bottom line is that Syria tended to be a black box, which tended to frustrate intelligence and law enforcement officials, as well as members of the diplomatic community.” open image in gallery ‘We need international help finding the missing and working out what crimes were committed here’ At the heart of it, Carstens speaks of the “dichotomy” of a brutal regime that would painstakingly document the atrocities it committed, atrocities seen in the images taken by the military photographer and defector codenamed Caesar, who photographed 11,000 bodies of detainees showing signs of torture, illness, and starvation. open image in gallery Graffiti on the walls from prisoners in the state security headquarters compound in Damascus “We have formed several search and rescue teams after pleas from families urging us to find people in places like Saydna,” says one of the White Helmet rescuers, explaining how they spent three days inspecting “every corner of the prison,” from electrical wires to sewage systems, but found nothing.
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