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Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System de Jaber Baker

Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System

Autor Jaber Baker, Ugur Ümit Üngör
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2023

Considerăm Syrian Gulag o contribuție fundamentală la literatura despre drepturile omului, scrisă de o echipă cu autoritate incontestabilă. Ugur Ümit Üngör, profesor de studii despre Holocaust și genocid la Universitatea din Amsterdam, își unește forțele cu Jaber Baker, activist și documentarist care a supraviețuit sistemului carceral sirian. Cercetarea lor fundamentează o analiză fără precedent a mașinăriei represive a dinastiei Assad, folosind accesul recent la mii de refugiați și documente scurse din interiorul regimului.

Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care este disecat aparatul de stat. Prima parte a volumului explorează ierarhia agențiilor de informații — de la informațiile militare la divizia de securitate politică — oferind o hartă a controlului social. A doua parte analizează geografia terorii, descriind centre infame precum închisoarea militară Mezze sau Palmyra. Structura este punctată de „intermezzo-uri” lirice și personale, care oferă o dimensiune umană datelor statistice reci despre cele peste 300.000 de persoane deținute.

Comparabil cu A Place Outside the Law de Peter Jan Honigsberg în ceea ce privește utilizarea mărturiilor directe, Syrian Gulag este însă actualizat pentru a reflecta specificul unui sistem totalitar care operează pe parcursul a cinci decenii, nu doar într-un context de război limitat. Dacă Burning Country de Robin Yassin-Kassab oferă o imagine de ansamblu a conflictului sirian, lucrarea de față se concentrează exclusiv pe „arhitectura dispariției”, fiind susținută de anexe despre metodele de tortură și rațiile de hrană, elemente ce transformă volumul într-un dosar de probă istorică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780755650200
ISBN-10: 0755650204
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 80 b&w images and 24 col. images
Dimensiuni: 166 x 236 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Această carte este esențială pentru cercetătorii în științe politice și profesioniștii din domeniul drepturilor omului. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care un regim autoritar utilizează sistemul carceral pentru a-și asigura supraviețuirea. Este o lectură necesară pentru a înțelege realitatea siriană dincolo de titlurile de știri, oferind dovezi documentate despre unul dintre cele mai opace sisteme de detenție din lume.

Descriere

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize

An estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a post on Facebook or for the political activities of a distant relative. They are imprisoned without trial, and tortured and starved, often to death.

This book is the first to expose the worst prisons in the Middle East, if not the world. In previous years it had been too dangerous to undertake research on this subject, but the enormous numbers of Syrians taking refuge in neighbouring countries and Europe has allowed unprecedented access to their stories.

Based on interviews with both the victims and perpetrators, survivors' memoirs and notes, as well as leaked regime archives, leaked photos, and leaked intelligence files, the book is a testament of the internment and imprisonment system in Syria under the rule of the Assads, father and son (1970-2020).

A harrowing account of the machinery of the Assad dynasty, Syrian Gulag is also an urgent exposé on Syria today.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Introduction

Intermezzo 1 The Guilty Dream

Part One The Intelligence Agencies

1 The Military Intelligence
2 The Air Force Intelligence
3 The State Security or General Intelligence
4 The Political Security Division
5 The Military Police
Part One Conclusion

Intermezzo 2 Poem in Morse Code

Part Two The Prisons

6 Mezze Military Prison
7 Palmyra (Tadmor) Military Prison
8 Saydnaya Military Prison
9 Civil Prisons
10 Secret Prisons
Part Two Conclusion

Intermezzo 3 Our Children in the World

Conclusion

Intermezzo 4 To Err is Human

Appendix 1 Biographies
Appendix 2 Torture Methods
Appendix 3 Food
Appendix 4 Diseases and Medicine
Appendix 5 Prison Lexicon

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

[Syrian Gulag] is an addition to the discourse on how oppressive regimes perpetuate their power over the masses, and how innocent men and women finding themselves locked up in the oppressive network of torturous prisons.
In Syrian Gulag, Jaber Baker and Ugur Ümit Üngör present the first detailed overview of the prison system. They have carried out more than 100 interviews with surviving detainees, as well as former prisoner workers and many other eyewitnesses. They have also drawn upon a huge amount of archival material. The results are profoundly shocking. In more than 30 years of book reviewing, this is the most horrifying volume I have read.
Syrian Gulag . is the most comprehensive and systematic single-volume book on Syria's imprisonment system of terror.
This book is an extraordinary achievement. Drawing on extensive primary source material, Baker and Üngör reveal in an unprecedented level of detail the sheer magnitude of Syria's massive internal security agencies, the bureaucratization of torture on an industrial scale, and the extent to which fear is a constant presence in the lives of ordinary Syrians. The book is unsparing in its accounts of survivors of torture and techniques of torture, and all the more powerful for including them. It makes an unimpeachable case for brutality and violence as defining attributes of the Assad regime. It is also a sobering rebuttal to those seeking the regime's "normalization." It should be required reading for all who have an interest in Syria, human rights, and states as perpetrators of mass violence.
This study is the first in any language to begin to map the Syrian prison archipelago. It is an urgently necessary and timely insight into the workings of Syria's Assad regime.
As some European states have started forcing refugees back to Syria, this book is a grim reminder that for its unfortunate citizens, the violence preceded the use of rockets and barrel bombs, and the threat to their life remains undiminished. What makes this book invaluable is its panoramic picture of Syria's vast repressive apparatus that the uprising failed to dislodge. What makes this book frightening is that unlike Dante, who had to use his prodigious imagination to describe hell, the hell described herein comes from the direct experience of survivors who lived through its various circles of torment. In painstaking detail, Jaber Baker and Ugur Ümit Üngör have mapped the hellish institutions, sites, and methods through which the Syrian regime has preserved its rule by extinguishing hope and humanity. And through meticulous documentation they've also created an instrument through which the perpetrators may one day be held to account.
Syria's dungeons have long kept its secrets; places so foreboding and cruel that few dared mention what happens inside them. The war has changed that. Once taboo topics are now being discussed far from the broken country, where former prisoners now in exile are detailing a killing and torture machine that rivals the Khmer Rouge for the scale of its savagery. In Syrian Gulag, Üngör and Baker open the gates of one of modern history's most infamous prison systems and empower a brutalised people to tell their stories.