Syrian Gulag

Ugur Ümit Üngör is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Holland. He has won several academic awards and held visiting positions in Dublin, Vancouver, Budapest, Toronto, and Los Angeles. His most recent publication is Paramilitarism: Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State (2020).Jaber Baker is a documentary filmmaker, novelist and human rights activist. Between 2002 and 2004 he was held in a military prison in Syria. He has 16 years' experience of research and specialises in the Syrian prison system.

• List of Illustrations Introduction Intermezzo 1 The Guilty Dream Part One The Intelligence Agencies1 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

[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.