Guterres warns that there are more than 100,000 missing in Syria

March 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has appealed to the international community to collaborate in ending the armed conflict in Syria, a country where more than 100,000 people are currently missing.

The Syrian people, Guterres has declared, “deserve a measure of hope for the future, they deserve peace and security, and they deserve to know the truth about the fate of their loved ones.”

“Justice demands it, and peace and reconciliation depend on it,” he assured. “People across the country and across all factions have loved ones who are missing, including family members who have been forcibly disappeared, abducted, tortured and arbitrarily detained,” she added.

“The majority are men, leaving their female relatives in charge of supporting their families in impossible conditions,” he lamented, “and at the same time taking on the complicated and often terrifying and dangerous task of looking for their children, husbands, brothers or parents”.

The Syrian people have suffered the consequences of a war that has dragged on and that “sees children become adolescents without having known a day of peace”, and leads citizens to a precarious situation that has been exacerbated by the earthquakes that They shook the northern part of the country in February.

“The international community has a moral obligation to help in this desperate situation”, the secretary has sentenced, “let us fulfill this obligation”.