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Franceinfo met Enora chamea former intelligence officer. In 2012, she was sent to Syria as part of a UN-brokered ceasefire. A particularly violent mission, which she recounts in a new book.
To the occasion of the release of book When advances the shadow, franceinfo met its author, Enora chame. This former intelligence officer was sent to Syria in 2012, as part of a UN-brokered ceasefire. To At the time, the clashes in the country opposed the Free Syrian Army to that of Bashar al-Assad. A mission she recounts in this book: “In Syria, each city had its own dynamic. (…) But of course, the common point of all was the suffering of the civilian populations.
In case things go wrong during a mission, Enora chame always kept the last ball to herself. She explains that, especially being a woman, she did not want her family to way “tortured, raped on the internet, and it stays forever”. The former officer looks back on the situation in Syria today: “We can’t say that it’s a great success. I think that mission was a failure.“ The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports nearly 500,000 deaths since the start of the conflict in 2011.
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