DAMASCUS, Syria ¨C A year after dictator Bashar Assad¡¯s ouster in Syria, little has changed in Amina Beqai¡¯s desperate quest. She types her missing husband¡¯s name yet again into an internet search box, hoping for answers to a 13-year-old question. In vain.
Beqai has nowhere else to turn.
A National Commission for Missing Persons established in May has been gathering evidence of enforced disappearances under Assad, but has yet to offer families any clues on the estimated 150,000 people who vanished in his notorious prisons.
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