The rebellions launched by the opposition on November 27 overthrew the 61-year-old Baath rule in Syria. After Bashar Assad fled to Russia, all balances in Syria and the region changed. The most striking thing within the framework of the events was the images from Sednaya Prison in the capital Damascus, which was used as the torture center of the regime. UN Special Representative Geir Pedersen also visited Sednaya and made observations. Pedersen, who said about his visit, “What we see here is an indescribable horror,” was also reacted by the relative of a Syrian prisoner.
REACTION FROM THE PRISONER IN SEDNAYA PRISON
“Are you coming now? It’s too late. We don’t want you anymore, go, go!” This is how Syrians, whose relatives in Sednaya Prison cannot be reached, reacted to the UN Special Representative for Syria.
Syrian woman threw her shoe at the UN Representative’s car.
UN SYRIA REPRESENTATIVE VISITED ASSAD’S TORTURE CENTER
Stating that he met with some people in Sednaya Prison and that the horror they experienced was indescribable, Pedersen expressed his respect to all the victims and families.
Pedersen noted that such a thing should not be repeated neither in Syria nor anywhere else in the world, and said that documents related to Sednaya Prison should be preserved and that this is critical to ensure justice.
“WHAT WE SEE HERE IS AN UNDESCRIBABLE HORROR”
“For what needs to be done, to ensure accountability and justice, this process needs to start with support for families, survivors and victims, and it needs to start with us preserving the evidence,” Pedersen said in a statement to the press. This is extremely important. As I have said before, what we see here today is indescribable horror and must never be repeated anywhere in the world. “Thanks to justice, we can pursue this incident and ensure that it does not happen again,” he said.
Emphasizing once again that documents must be preserved to ensure justice, UN Special Representative for Syria Pedersen said, “We need to make sure that we preserve the documents. Therefore, this needs to be underlined. “This is an extremely critical issue,” he said.
“We have been working on detainees since the first day I started this job,” said Pedersen. “This is, of course, one of the many tragedies of the Syrian civil war and previous years. Like I said, this really, really needs to end and not happen again. Let’s make sure we support survivors and their families. “They need all of us more than ever,” he said.