Summary

Mass graves uncovered in Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow reveal evidence of systematic atrocities, with over 100,000 people tortured and killed in what a top war crimes prosecutor described as the worst abuses “since the Nazis.”

Assad’s regime operated a “machinery of death,” involving mass disappearances, torture, and secret burials.

Rebel forces freed thousands of political prisoners, but many remain missing.

International efforts aim to document war crimes, though Assad, now in Russia, is unlikely to face trial.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Really? Nothing else since WWII has been this bad? I can think of three off the top of my head! Syria’s neighbor is doing a holocaust right now. It’s like they’re pretending that nothing bad has happened since the Nazis were defeated.

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      4 hours ago

      I agree with your point but I think the Palestinian genocide is a bad example. Imo better examples from the top of my mind: the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides likely were far worse both in absolute numbers and as a % of the population, and the policies of Maoist China got many more people killed.

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        37 minutes ago

        The Palestinian genocide is happening right now, is my point. We don’t have to crawl through history to find atrocities.

        Indonesia after the CIA coup is another good example, or Iraq when we killed over a million people. This stuff is way more recent than WWII.

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      There are 100.000 bodies in a single mass grave. And that is just one out of five. That’s kinda in a league of its own.

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      Yes, nothing.

      No one here is claiming what Israel is doing isn’t horrible (hell, you’re the only one bringing it up). But, this is worse. Wild how there can be more than one bad thing and one being worse doesn’t make the other one not bad, isn’t it?

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        Don’t argue with a .ml user when they move the goalposts to be “America bad” without any context. It’s a losing battle.

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        This isn’t worse! The official death toll is a massive undercount, the real death toll is probably in the same order of magnitude.

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      You mean the country that is claiming Syrian sovereign space like the Golan Heights for their illegal settlements since the 90s?

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      How “whatabout” that.

      Stop trying to shove this news under the carpet with your “I know worse but I won’t tell you!!1!”

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        3 hours ago

        I’m trying to point out that history didn’t start and end in WWII, and pointing to something just as bad happening right now.

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      6 hours ago

      The Russians never stopped doing such things. Before, during and after WW2.

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      3 hours ago

      I feel bad for people like you sometimes. I promise you the republicans are not going to create mass graves with up to 500,000 dead

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        I would much rather be surrounded by the people you’re surrounded by than keep hearing those exact promises out of the people I’m surrounded by.