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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.

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I really hope that there can be some sort of coalition for peace and recovery among the various Syrian forces now that Assad is out of power.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Mmm. We all know how this is going to go.

The "good guys" are all of a sudden going to see the potential to have power over others, and then feel entitled to do whatever they can to maintain and expand that power.

Before long, we have another Assad regime that's different in name only.

It's a cultural problem, and greed is the root of it all.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Since the Nazis? Cambodian genocide doesn't even get a look in, eh?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Finally, a comparison which doesn't fall flat on its face like much of the rest of this thread. The intensity in Cambodia was extreme, it was under four years and 1.5 to three million killed, tortured, experimented upon, you name it. Even with everything else assumed equal the Assads were way slower at doing things.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Or ISIS, literally in the same UN-recognised borders at the same time.

I'm gonna chalk it up to this guy being a lawyer prosecuting a case.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hard to say if they Palestinian holocaust when the zionists wont allow people to be recovered from the rubble, use mass graves, and have been clearing rubble and not adding to the body count at all. They are hiding the numbers. Even hiding as much as possible its still about 50k.