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.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    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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      6 hours ago

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

    • queermunist she/her
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      6 hours ago

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