“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.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Don’t argue with a .ml user when they move the goalposts to be “America bad” without any context. It’s a losing battle.

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

      This isn’t worse! The official death toll is a massive undercount, the real death toll is probably in the same order of magnitude.