“We are talking about a system of state terror," Stephen Rapp, former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, said of how people lived in Syria under the Assad regime.

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.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      63·
      2 hours ago

      Have they been in a prison where they were regularly and systematically tortured, and that for decades, before they ended up in those bags?

      Not even a fucking month has passed and people with .ml accounts are already trivialising Assad. Tankies gotta stick to their own, I guess.

      • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        1 hour ago

        I don’t understand this comment but yes the Palestinian in Gaza were in a giant prison, they get restricted access to food, no freedom of movement, and when they try to peacefully leave got shot in the knees by sniper.

        • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          And those who were in officially “Israeli” prisons, got raped according and torture.