A Syria hit list? A list of regime enemies emerges.
News organization Mother Jones has gotten hold of a massive spreadsheet containing names and contacts for thousands of Syrian dissidents.
News organization Mother Jones has gotten hold of a massive spreadsheet containing names and contacts for thousands of Syrian dissidents.
News organization Mother Jones has gotten hold of a massive spreadsheet that may be a hit list compiled by the Syrian regime.聽Hamid Aleaziz writes:
The article speculates about how the list is being used, but doesn't really know. But it doesn't take much imagination to speculate. The Syrian mukhabarat has long been used to torture and kill anti-regime activists, and the regime has also used the family members of activists living abroad as leverage against them.
Amnesty International wrote in a report last year that it had documented:
The death toll is mounting from the shelling campaign in Homs and other cities. The odds are that quieter arrests and disappearances of regime opponents also continue.
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