Wikileaks, the whistleblower website known best for leaking U.S. and its allies' top-secret documents on the Iraq war, has started to release emails exchanged by Syrian politicians from the presidential ministries, finance, public affairs, security, transport and other such departments between August 2006 and March 2012.
The online leak group claims to have over two million emails that divulge Syrian internal secrets from the most intimate sources including President Assad. It released a statement saying that the goal is to "shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy ...violent internal conflict," as reported by the New York Times. The emails are also said to depict the veracity of the role of the international community.
Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange, who is currently fighting extradition charges in the U.K. and seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, told BBC News that the "ground breaking" documents "derived from Syrian files will embarrass not only Syria, but its opponents."
Sarah Harrison of Wikileaks told the Guardian, ""The range of information extends from the intimate correspondence of the most senior [governing] Baath party figures to records of financial transfers sent from Syrian ministries to other nations...it helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it."
Syria has been engaged in a severe civil war between the government and revolutionaries since March 2011, it was resulted in the deaths of over 15,800 civilians.
A minute to minute update of the releases can be found here.
