{"id":39183,"date":"2025-08-10T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/963media.com\/en\/?p=39183"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:08:38","slug":"investigative-committees-in-new-syria-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/963media.com\/en\/10\/08\/2025\/investigative-committees-in-new-syria-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigative Committees in New Syria\u2026 Under Scrutiny!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in December last year, Syria\u2019s new government has adopted the slogan of \u201caccountability and transitional justice\u201d and announced the formation of national committees to investigate major violations that followed the collapse of the security state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But three pivotal flashpoints; the coast, the Dweila\u2019a district, and southern Syria, have cast serious doubt on the effectiveness and independence of these committees, amid accusations of delayed justice, selective investigations, and shielding actual perpetrators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following a series of bloody events across the country since the start of this year, presidential decrees established independent investigative committees covering all major violation sites (the coast \u2013 Dweila\u2019a \u2013 Suwayda). Their mandates included field monitoring, recording testimonies, conducting technical investigations, receiving complaints, and cooperating with UN human rights bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite government assurances of independence, detailed reports have not been published. Instead, only brief statements were issued, officially to protect witnesses\u2019 safety, without yielding tangible results or visible prosecutions. This has triggered widespread public questions about their usefulness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The developments come at a politically sensitive moment, analysts say, with intensifying international competition for influence in Syria and domestic stability linked to reconstruction and foreign investment; both seen by many as motivations for the new leadership to project legitimacy at home and abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/963media.com\/en\/09\/08\/2025\/what-remains-of-the-assad-regimes-judiciary-in-the-new-syria\/#\">What Remains of the Assad Regime\u2019s Judiciary in the New Syria?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Syria\u2019s Coastal Region<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between March 6 and 10 this year, fierce clashes erupted in Syria\u2019s coastal areas (Latakia, Tartous, Homs, Hama) between \u201cremnants\u201d of the old regime and the new security forces. According to the National Investigation Committee, 1,426 people were killed, including 90 women. Documented violations included summary executions, mass killings, looting and burning of property, and assaults on civilians and government employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government deployed over 100,000 personnel to secure the coast and imposed a total curfew. The national fact-finding committee visited 33 sites, met with victims\u2019 families, and interrogated detainees. Around 298 suspects were identified, with 38 arrested by the end of the investigation. Results were announced in a press conference in Damascus, with officials citing the need to withhold full details to protect witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyst Ahmad al-Zein told <\/span><b>+963<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that while forming such committees \u201csignals a clear intent by the new government, led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, to embrace a democratic approach,\u201d they \u201cdo not appear entirely independent\u201d and may take \u201cunusual measures to consolidate the fledgling system\u201d amid serious security and political challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human rights activist Thaer Hijazi warns that official acknowledgment of violations is \u201ca positive development in principle,\u201d but fears the committees could be \u201cmere cosmetic tools to absorb public anger.\u201d He points out that the coastal investigation findings, though handed to the presidency, have not led to judicial action despite \u201cvisible and documented\u201d evidence; raising doubts about the state\u2019s seriousness in applying justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The Mar Elias Church Bombing<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On June 22, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt inside Mar Elias Church in the Dweila\u2019a district of Damascus during mass, killing 25 and injuring 63. The blast partially destroyed the church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Syrian government blamed extremist groups like ISIS and \u201cSaraya Ansar al-Sunna,\u201d while some analysts suggested possible involvement of former regime elements or regional actors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security forces cordoned off the area and arrested several suspects, including the cell leader and five members. An investigative committee led by internal security chiefs was formed, with some community participation in collecting testimonies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet doubts remain over whether the committees can uncover the full truth or hold all actors accountable. Observers warn that citing \u201cterrorism\u201d risks deflecting attention from possible state failures in prevention or intelligence lapses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/963media.com\/en\/04\/05\/2025\/the-new-syria-between-u-s-conditions-and-israeli-fragmentation\/#\">The New Syria Between U.S. Conditions and Israeli \u201cFragmentation\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Suwayda Clashes<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 12, violent clashes broke out in Suwayda province between Druze groups and armed Bedouin factions amid a security vacuum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fighting left hundreds dead and heightened sectarian tensions before a US- and Arab-brokered ceasefire took hold on July 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministries of Defense, Interior, and Justice formed specialized investigative committees that opened direct channels with residents to receive complaints. The committee, led by Judge Hatem al-Nassan and lawyer Ammar Ezzedine, was granted full authority, with a pledge to submit its final report to both the government and the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Hijazi insists that such measures are insufficient \u201cunless they lead to transparent trials.\u201d He warns that the most dangerous aspect of these events was \u201cmedia incitement and the emergence of armed groups committing open violations without deterrence, reproducing violence and threatening social cohesion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al-Zein emphasizes that \u201cSyria\u2019s political future will be directly influenced by the performance of these committees,\u201d arguing that their transparency and professionalism will determine whether the country moves toward a truly unified democratic system or adopts a selective crisis-management approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He adds that geopolitical shifts, from al-Shibani\u2019s visit to Moscow to rising US-Turkish competition, make the committees\u2019 performance not just a domestic matter, but also a bargaining chip in the regional and international power struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hijazi underscores that involving victims in the transitional justice process and ensuring their representation in truth and accountability committees is \u201cthe only way to guarantee non-recurrence of crimes.\u201d He fears, however, that the committees could be used to distract from ongoing violations through superficial investments or unfulfilled economic promises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between official statements promising justice and critical voices warning of procrastination, Syria\u2019s national investigative committees face a double test: proving seriousness in uncovering the truth and delivering justice that is neither partial nor delayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the midst of overlapping regional and international pressures, these committees are becoming a mirror reflecting the intentions of the new regime, and a yardstick for citizens to judge whether Syria is truly moving toward a state of law, or simply reshuffling the players in an unchanged game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in December last year, Syria\u2019s new government has adopted the slogan of \u201caccountability and transitional justice\u201d and announced the formation of national committees to investigate major violations that followed the collapse of the security state. 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