A Year After the Suweida Massacres: Syria Still Cannot Face Its Dead

A Year After the Suweida Massacres: Syria Still Cannot Face Its Dead

The first anniversary of the July 2025 massacres in Suweida offers no meaningful measure of recovery. It reveals instead how violence survives after the shooting ends, embedded in official records, demographic displacement, militia power and the daily humiliation of survivors. One year after a dispute in the al-Maqous neighbourhood escalated into three days of devastating violence, Suweida remains caught between a central government unwilling to…

Sweida One Year After the Massacres: Mass Graves and Unidentified Victims

Many of the victims' families now refuse to complete the official death registration procedures, viewing them as a public denial of the massacres they witnessed firsthand. They say the process has only deepened the crisis of trust between the people of Sweida and the government in Damascus.