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.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    So really really bog standard socialist stuff. Why didn’t they compare it to Stalin, his worst abuses were after Nazis and it would’ve tracked more anyway.

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      The Ba’ath Party is as socialist as the nazi party. Hint: not at all.

      Genuinely curious, though. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production; How would that cause genocide in your opinion?

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        Socialism is when the workers own the means of production; How would that cause genocide in your opinion?

        What do you mean, “would”?

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          You implied that socialism kills. How?

          Perhaps you meant authoritarianism?

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            I’m on-side with socialism - but to be fair, most of the real world examples that call/called themselves socialist do have a pretty bad track record of descending into totalitarianism/authoritarianism.

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              Most of western European governments are democratic socialist for like 50% of the time.

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              Yup, but those are intentional. That’s how an ML state functions. That’s why Marxism Leninism is a bad idea.