“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.

    • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
      162·
      4 days ago

      Are americans just not able to not bring up US politics in articles literally unrelated in any way? I’m pretty sure massacres, concentration camps, kidnappings, child soldiers, rapes, and ethnic cleansings are a little worse than trump’s 4 year term.

      All of that, just for wanting freedom and democracy. But it seems you people have a persecution fetish. Kinky.

      PS: I don’t support republicans, they are fascists, and i’m not saying that trump’s term will be all fine and dandy, but it doesn’t even compare to this.

    • Furball@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      913·
      4 days ago

      I feel bad for people like you sometimes. I promise you the republicans are not going to create mass graves with up to 500,000 dead

      • SelfProgrammed@lemmy.todayEnglish
        72·
        4 days ago

        I would much rather be surrounded by the people you’re surrounded by than keep hearing those exact promises out of the people I’m surrounded by.

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
        41·
        3 days ago

        Trump killed hundreds of thousands in his last presidency. He might break it this time if you combine both

        • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          700k died because of Trump’s COVID policies. Including the bleach and ivermectin thing. It was so prevalent for him to kill his followers, a subreddit was made called the Herman Cain Award.

          Now, Trump wants to traffick/“deport” 25mil Latinos, majority Native American, Christian, and Catholic group. A real attack on Christianity and I haven’t heard a single Christian care. And he wanted to be able to traffick them out of the Bahamas to countries they didn’t originate from, until the Bahamas said no recently.

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Robert Kennedy wants to bring back Polio.

        The Trump presidency will be littered with corpses.