Seminar in Syria’s Qamishli discusses missing persons’ fate in Syrian war
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – In a seminar organized by Ezdina Foundation and the GAV4RD organization, in the city of Qamishli, northeast Syria, families of the missing people in the Syrian war discussed the fate of their sons on Wednesday.
“My cousin Jamil Haftaro, a father of four, was kidnapped in 2012 in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo city, by a faction called Khaled al-Hayani within the opposition Free Army,” Ibrahim Haftaro, a relative of one of the missing persons, said.
“For about ten years, we have not obtained any information about the place he was taken to by the faction, and we do not know if he is dead or is still detained by them,” North press reported Haftaro, who took part in the seminar.
He indicated that he participated the seminar with the aim that his voice would reach the concerned authorities, expressing his readiness to participate in any initiative that might help them to obtain information about his missing cousin.
“This project is sponsored by International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), which was founded in 1996 under the auspices of seven countries,” Avin Sheikhmous, an official of Ezdina Foundation said.
“One of the ICMP tasks and duties is to know the fate of the missing persons,” she added.
“It only works in places where there are long conflicts and wars, and it will reach the largest number of missing persons’ families and will try hard to find out the fate of the missing,” according to Sheikhmous.