Baladi News
The Syrian designer, Tamer Turkmani, continues his four year long project to document the victims of the Syrian revolution with their names and pictures.
According to Turkmani, he has focused on the photos of the unidentified victims, because they are not mere numbers and they have not received the necessary attention from human rights organizations and documentation institutions.
Turkmani believe that it is necessary to highlight the martyrs that have been ignored by the media, and at the same time, help parents to know whether their children are dead or alive.
However, Tamer is aware that there are about 200,000 people whose fate is unknown.
This documentation will push the families and relatives of the missing to look for them once calm has prevailed in Syria, especially after the closure of most of the organizations that were documenting the martyrs on a daily basis, according to Turkmani.
He added that the forcibly disappeared people have been forgotten by Syrian society. He insists that they’re normal people, saying, “they are people, like me and you and millions of other people, but the difference is that they fell into the hands of criminals, who don’t know mercy and killed them without knowing anything about them”.
Turkmani said that there are images of more than 20,000 victims, whose identities and names are unknown.
So far, Turkmani has documented about 9,000 images of the 20,000 anonymous people.
Source: The Syrian Observer.