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.

  • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Stop. Let the people of Syria be recognized for the horrors they lived through. Wtf is wrong with you?

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      13 hours ago

      I will not allow Palestinians to be erased! Or any of the other mass murders of over 100,000 people! This disrespects every atrocity that has happened since the end of WWII, by saying those ones either aren’t real or don’t count.

      • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 hours ago

        so because theres already a genocide no other genocides can exist? Yes, the Palestina genocide is bad, but that doesn’t mean posting about any other genocide is hate towards Palestinians.

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          2 hours ago

          You don’t get to say “the worst since WWII” when there were other genocides that compared or were worse since WWII. It’s erasing history.

          “Worst” is what I’m taking issue with.