Talk:Center for Documentation of Violations in Syria

The registry of names of the war dead between 1914-1922
When complaining about the reliability of the data, one must remember that it took Finland over 80 years to create The registry of names of the war dead between 1914-1922. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 01:59, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Located in Douma?
''Meanwhile, Syrian activists said a leading human rights lawyer had been abducted near Damascus on Tuesday.
 * Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria – BBC, 10 December 2013

''Razan Zaytouna was seized along with three other activists from the eastern suburb of Douma after armed men broke into the office of the Violations Documentation Centre (VDC), which monitors casualties.

''The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), a network of opposition activists of which Ms Zaytouna is a founding member, demanded their immediate and unconditional release.

''There was no claim of responsibility for the abduction, but Ms Zaytouna is reported to have recently received threats from Islamist rebel groups.

''BEIRUT - Prominent Syrian human rights lawyer Razan Zeitoune was kidnapped along with her husband and two colleagues in the Damascus town of Douma.
 * Prominent Syrian activist Razan Zeitoune kidnapped – NOW, 10 December 2013

''"Masked men stormed and vandalized the Douma office of the Violation Documentation Center in Syria and [kidnapped] Razan Zeitoune, [her husband] Wael Hmadeh, Nazem al-Hamadi and Samira al-Khalil,” sources told NOW on Tuesday.


 * What the hell? Obviously the kidnapping is more immediately relevant, but I too am stuck on her locale. I thought they'd be in Europe somewhere. For well over two years they help launder rebel, often Islamist rebel, crimes and blame the "regime." And she was right in one of the Damascus suburbs the "regime" has at times controlled, or shelled, or whatever - and it takes some Islamists to finally shut the operation down or threaten it over ... what, I wonder? --Caustic Logic (talk) 11:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)