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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    543 months ago

    I agree with your point but I think the Palestinian genocide is a bad example. Imo better examples from the top of my mind: the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides likely were far worse both in absolute numbers and as a % of the population, and the policies of Maoist China got many more people killed.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      Man, Mao’s policies got so many people killed that “only” 3-4m people died of famine.

      He’s got an incredible kill count.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Stalin all ready had a high kill count before the Nazis started their extermination camps.

      • LustyArgonian
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        3 months ago

        Mao’s policies weren’t deliberate, the bird thing was an attempt to help his people. Idk why this is constantly brought up when it is no where in the same league as someone deliberately trying to kill people. It just reeks of stupid western propaganda.

    • queermunist she/her
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      -33 months ago

      The Palestinian genocide is happening right now, is my point. We don’t have to crawl through history to find atrocities.

      Indonesia after the CIA coup is another good example, or Iraq when we killed over a million people. This stuff is way more recent than WWII.