In an interview with Al Jazeera on Thursday, a former Assad government officer who refused to expose thousands of people and expose the torture of thousands and expose their murder.
The military officer, known as “Caesar” so far, also revealed his identity as Farid Naga Al -Madhan, head of the Judicial Department for Military Police in Damascus.
Even in exile, Madhan had previously used the pseudonym to protect his identity and his relatives, just appeared in a famous blue hoodie that blurred his face, And he frightened the payments.
Madhan was a military photographer who was responsible for document the bodies of Syrians killed by the Assad regime, many were brutally killed. For two years, he smuggled USB drives full of photographs outside Assad’s security branches, which documents the death of at least 6,786 people in custody.
To do this, Madhan took the risk of arrest by the government and the opposition forces.
Madhan said Thursday, “I was hiding photos on my clothes, bread bags and my man for fear of searching at the checkpoints.” Since he worked for security services but he lived in a rebel group, a Syrian Free Army -controlled area, he created a fake civilian ID for himself to pass through opposition checkpoints.
On one occasion, he said he was recognized by an opposition soldier at a checkpoint. The soldier, whom he had previously kept in his house as a handicraft, did not stop Madhan despite the status of Rajim Officer. The incident, however, shook him.
In 2013, Madhan decided that he had collected considerable evidence and endured considerable danger, and decided to make his decision worse. He fled to Jordan and then left Qatar, where he worked with a legal firm to use smuggled images to make the Assad regime’s crimes accountable.
These images, which first emerged in 2014, had the first widely broad documents of the Assad government’s brutal detention system, which were put into the over drive to end the country’s 2011 revolution. According to Human Rights Watch, 6,786 victims documented by Madhan came from only five intelligence branches in Damascus.
According to fans, at the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, about 10 to 15 bodies will be brought to security branches where he worked. By 2013, that number increased to 50 bodies a day. Most “cardiac grip” was listed as the cause of death, which was known as death by violence during the war.
The rights groups estimate the total number of detainees by the Assad government. About 100,000 prisoners were missing, after the rebels opened Assad’s prisons during their power aggression at the end of the government’s fall on December 8.
The revelations of these photos led to the US “Caesar Act” in 2019, which imposed sanctions on Syrian officials and someone else who were engaged in “important transactions” with the Assad regime. Although the US government has said that these sanctions have been targeted in nature, experts have long said that they have had a huge impact on the Syrian economy, which has affected large -scale civilians.
The new authorities in Damascus, led by the Syrian President, Ahmed Al -Shahara, were previously known as De Gore, Abu Mohammed al -Julani, demanded the removal of US sanctions. The United States has reduced sanctions on some humanitarian sectors with a six -month exemption, while the European Union has said it is waiting to see if the new rulers of Syria will protect the minorities and form a comprehensive government. Will
In addition to demanding the termination of sanctions on Syria, Madhan said he hoped that a new government in Damascus would “open national courts, which would commit war against violations”.
