“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.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
    915·
    9 days ago

    I’m trying to point out that history didn’t start and end in WWII, and pointing to something just as bad happening right now.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
        19·
        8 days ago

        I expect nothing less from reddit.world 🙄

        Do you really think 100,000 people haven’t been killed in any since conflict since WWII? Cuz that’s the implication.