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.

  • @[email protected]
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    991 month ago

    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.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        441 month ago

        It is, but not this big yet.

        This is bigger than Gaza, not like the IDF is not trying to catch up.

        • queermunist she/her
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          -111 month ago

          Estimates are far higher than the official death toll - it’s hard to count bodies buried under the rubble.

          • @blazeknave
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            451 month ago

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

            • queermunist she/her
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              -301 month 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                231 month 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.

                • queermunist she/her
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                  1 month 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.

                  • @blazeknave
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                    81 month ago

                    Okay, thanks for sharing the source of your feelings. Your actions are still to hijack any and everything to be a soapbox. If there’s any single one thing that can take this space, it’s another genocide in the middle east. Like dude, come on…

                  • LustyArgonian
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                    He literally didn’t say that. You’re mad over a quote that doesn’t exist. He literally said “some of the worst.” I have seen video footage on BlueSky of the prisoners as they were executed and it is quite disturbing. “Like a machine,” to kill them en masse is pretty apropos of what I saw.

                    Do you think that’s okay? Do you think that’s NOT some of the worst mass murder to happen since WW2? If you think it’s an acceptable amount of murder, why?

                  • @TheFonz
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                    -21 month ago

                    Removed by mod