Adonis Diaries

What are the Missions of physicians within the secret service agencies Mukhabarat? An eye-witness account from Syria…

All secret service agencies around the world hire their special physicians to tend to prisoners during interrogation sessions. In dictatorial and absolute regimes, the missions of the physician increase in spectrum and specificities…

Abu Salim was a physician for the military Syrian Air Force Intelligence Services, before he deserted “stopped showing up, or didn’t return to work” and started treating the victims in makeshift hospitals and clinics in Homs.

Abu Salim divulged to journalist Jonathan Littell in “Diaries of Homs” what were his missions:

1. Maintaining alive the tortured prisoners (mostly political) until they admit on specific pieces of information.

2. Re-animating prisoners who lost consciousness during interrogation.

3. Administering psychotropic chemical products such as Chlorpromazine, diazepam, Valium, ketamine, ketalar…

4. Injecting alcohol 90% in eyes and noses… Alcohol is an excellent torture technique

5. Dispatching the prisoner to the military hospital, once he reached a dangerous resistance level

6. At the hospital, only the physician working for the Mukhabarat and the chief-physician of the hospital are permitted to treat the prisoner…

After the Syrian uprising, two years ago,:

1. Prisoners, judged not to be of major importance, are left to die. The physician sends his report to the high administrator in the prison who decides for any transfer to the military hospital

2. The physician is attached to the tortured prisoner and is not allowed to talk to him…

3. The physician stays with the prisoner patient and he is searched every time he exits or re-enters the room, by the two guards posted outside the room.

Abu Salim claims that there are 16 “Arab” prisoners (non-Syrian) in jail since 1985, and they are kept in individual cells.

13 of the special Arab prisoners are Lebanese, including two considered to be highly “dangerous”, 2 Jordanians, and an Algerian.

One of the dangerous Lebanese prisoner confessed that “I had a problem with Hafez al Assad (father of bashar)”

The 16 Arab prisoners went on hunger strike for 33 days requesting:

1. The right to read dailies

2. the right for fresh bread

3. the right for food that don’t smell bad!

The Arab prisoners had their dangerous and controversial demands satisfied.

Abu Salim report was told in February 2011, a couple of weeks before the regular Syrian army devastated the district of Baba Amru in the city of Homs.

Since then, the civil war escalation has taken foolish proportions and unimaginable cruelty and brutality, especially against civilians.

So far,  over 200,000 Syrian citizens flocked into Lebanon territory, and reaching even to the Arkoub region in the south.

The Lebanese government finally admitted to 125,000 refugees (official count on legitimate border crossings) and asked the UN to extend funds and support for the Syrian refugees.

And the cycle of refugees from various Arab States continues to be the name of the game in these unstable political regimes…