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While the Islamic State group lost all its territorial bases, Syrian families unite to search for their missing relatives after being kidnapped by the jihadist organization. Journalists, human rights activists or Syrian rebel fighters, several thousand have been kidnapped - and probably murdered - by the Islamic State group. This Tuesday, May 14 in Paris, Syrian families appealed to the countries of the international anti-jihadist coalition.
While the Islamic State group lost all its territorial bases, Syrian families unite to search for their missing relatives after being kidnapped by the jihadist organization. Journalists, human rights activists or Syrian rebel fighters, several thousand have been kidnapped - and probably murdered - by the Islamic State group. This Tuesday, May 14 in Paris, Syrian families appealed to the countries of the international anti-jihadist coalition.
It's been six years since Nawfall Ghadir did not see her husband Firas again. " It happened at night, Firas was driving a car with a friend, they were leaving a cafe in Raqqa to go home. On the way back, they were stopped by another car. Hidden and armed people came down and asked Firas to leave his vehicle. As for his friend, they ordered him not to move. Firas obeyed and he was taken in their car, it was his friend who came to warn us , "she says.
Like Firas, thousands of Syrians were kidnapped by the Islamic State group, which considered them opponents or embarrassing witnesses.
While the jihadists have been militarily defeated, the families of the missing are turning to the international coalition, as Nadim Houry of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) explains.
" There can be no victory against Daesh, if it is a victory that does not take into account the interests of the victims. And the first people concerned are those families who have missing relatives, in the hands of Daesh, sometimes since 2013, "he says.
These Syrian families are asking for a formal mechanism to collect information about the missing.
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