"Mr. Hamadeh’s account, told over Skype, and those of other former prisoners suggest an uneven mix of control and chaos inside Syria’s prisons and detention centers, laced with episodes of unpredictable cruelty. Government opponents believe that more than 200,000 people have been held in those jails in connection with the country’s civil war. The prisoners’ stories, which could not be independently confirmed, reveal partial breakdowns of order beneath the surface of a still-functioning system, as well as the day-to-day negotiations that prisoners and guards engage in to survive a patchy conflict where neither side is entirely secure." nytimes/2013/08/25/world/middleeast/accounts-of-syrian-prisons-describe-a-volatile-mix-of-chaos-and-control.html
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:37:26 +0000
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