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For years, Jaber Baker studied the Syrian prison complex in silence, solitude, even marginalization. Current developments in #Syria vindicate the visionary work of 'Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prison System'. Here he discusses the locations of prisons in Damascus. #Assad #Gulag

A moving, powerful testimony by Dima Khatib on how Baathism and Zionism have affected her family, and how one can acknowledge Syrian and Palestinian victimization simultaneously, without the pitfalls of zero-sum thinking.

In Turkish, an interview with Mehmet Tatlı for Medyascope about the #Assad regime's prison system in Syria. We discussed #Saydnaya prison in the wider context of the Syrian Gulag and the 4-dimensional prison complex that terrorized the country from 1970 to 2024.

نداء إلى الإعلاميين و الناشطين: لازم نحافظ كل المقابر و الارشيفات منشان المصلحة العامة في #سوريا.

Um im berüchtigten syrischen Saidnaja-Gefängnis nicht die Hoffnung zu verlieren, hat der Journalist Jaber Baker sich selbst zu sechs Monaten Haft verurteilt. Und als er diese Zeit abgesessen hatte, hat er sich noch mal sechs Monate gegeben und so weiter. trib.al/Y9SJhnw

After the fall of the Assad government, Human Rights Watch researchers visited the site of a mass grave in Damascus and took steps to document it. #Syria Learn more about the findings: bit.ly/3BySHuW

Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

My NIOD | Bluesky: @niodamsterdam.bsky.social lecture ‘In Defence of the Concept of Genocide’ is now out in the interesting new issue of Journal of Perpetrator Research with an intro by Uğur Ümit Üngör and a response by Dirk Moses @https://jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/issues/13/files/13-13-PB.pdf

An informative post by Taha Bali, who went to the infamous Mezze military airport. Crucial documents strewn around, family members searching for loved ones, and no coordinated effort to archive. We need asap a plan to create an archive of the #Assad regime's intelligence records.

L'entretien de Uğur Ümit Üngör « Le goulag syrien visait essentiellement à démobiliser la société politique » lorientlejour.com/article/1441236 via @LorientLeJour

Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prisons auths. human rights activist Jaber Baker & Genocide Studies Prof. NIOD | Bluesky: @niodamsterdam.bsky.social Uğur Ümit Üngör detail Assad’s intelligence agencies' use of detention & torture to repress dissent and maintain the Assad regime's control.

Time to share some news that has been under wraps for a while now! 📣🚨📚 I am thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of my book, “Searching for Solidarity: The Revolutionary Dreams and Affective Hopes of Radical Social Movements” with Ohio State University Press, set to

EDITOR’s PICK: “Every Syrian knew of Sednaya. All those we spoke to before we arrived at the site itself knew someone who had been taken by the regime, someone who could still be waiting for their loved ones to rescue them.” newlinesmag.com/spotlight/hope…

"Paramilitarism: Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State" has been published in Turkish by İletişim Yayınları. Grateful to everyone who made it possible. Interesting detail: the cover of the English edition featured an AK-47, but the Turkish translation has an M-16 on the cover.

“Devletlerin paramiliter gruplara ihtiyaç duymalarının sebebi, 'makbul şekilde inkar edilebilirlik' ve sadık gruplara suç işlettirerek onları bağlamaktır.” Evrim Kepenek Prof. Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör ile dünyada paramiliter grupların yükselişini konuştu buff.ly/QXsVUGF

Episode out now👇As the regime in Syria collapsed, it left behind a trove of intelligence archives. But also unmarked mass graves. How will the new authorities tackle the justice and accountability needs of so many people? asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/episo…

How is #famine used by governments as a deliberate policy of #starvation in #genocide? Tune in to SPUI25 tonight to learn more about the history of this phenomenon. Program in the link. spui25.nl/programma/hung…

Deze week bestaat het NIOD tachtig jaar – het instituut werd direct na de Bevrijding opgericht. Een gesprek met de directeur over de veranderende rol van het instituut en lessen uit het verleden. „Het zijn gevoelige thema’s, maar daar moeten we niet bang voor zijn.”