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 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
