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.

  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    And the Palestinian genocide and your other examples aren’t “worse” in any metric (yet). The use and misrepresentation of those examples just tells us that you’re a tankie who engages in whataboutism and spreads untruths to build a narrative.

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

      Between 500,000 to one million were killed in Indonesia and Iraq. The fuck you mean they aren’t worse?

      And the Palestinian genocide is at least within the same order of magnitude.

      Why are you erasing them?