“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.

  • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s like they’re pretending that nothing bad has happened since the Nazis were defeated.

    That’s different from saying you think worse things happened.

    Might want to brush up on your reading comprehension, buddy.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      If something is “the worst” then nothing worse happened, ergo, they’re pretending that all the other worse things didn’t happen. Evidently, the million people that were killed in Iraq and Indonesia just aren’t as important.

      • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        If something is “the worst” then nothing worse happened, ergo

        Yes. That’s different from “nothing bad has happened.”