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.
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.
Since the Nazis? Cambodian genocide doesn’t even get a look in, eh?
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.
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.
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.
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.
oh dear
So really really bog standard socialist stuff.
Why didn’t they compare it to Stalin? His worst abuses were after Nazis and it would’ve tracked more anyway because of the political angle and because both Stalin and al-Assad committed crimes on their “own people”.
Bog standard totalitarianism. Not socialism.
Potato, potahto.
There’s plenty of market-oriented or just straight-up elitist totalitarians to go around.
The Ba’ath Party is as socialist as the nazi party. Hint: not at all.
Genuinely curious, though. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production; How would that cause genocide in your opinion?
Socialism is when the workers own the means of production; How would that cause genocide in your opinion?
What do you mean, “would”?
You implied that socialism kills. How?
Perhaps you meant authoritarianism?
I’m on-side with socialism - but to be fair, most of the real world examples that call/called themselves socialist do have a pretty bad track record of descending into totalitarianism/authoritarianism.
Most of western European governments are democratic socialist for like 50% of the time.
Yup, but those are intentional. That’s how an ML state functions. That’s why Marxism Leninism is a bad idea.
Socialism is when death machine 🤡🤡🤡
Yea, but it’s different because it’s owned by the people collectively 🤡🤡🤡
Only brown people can be Nazis
No one was saying that?
I’m arab and even everyone that i know agrees the Ba’athists are straight up arab fascists.
So, Arab regimes in Egypt and Jordan are not?
They’re all engaged in human rights violations but Syria wasn’t a US client state so it gets the Hitler treatment.
Lmao, I literally never said that. I hate all the Arab dynasties just as much as Bashar, if not more. and Sisi is a moron.
Quit your whataboutism. Assad is bad. Dictators are bad, no matter if they are pro or anti US.
If they are pro US and kiss Israel’s ass their brutality is swept under the rug or whitewashed.
You’ll never see articles like this for Sisi or King Tomato because the colonial powers are hypocrites. That’s my point.
Sisi and king Abdullah (i assume that is “king tomato”) are morons, but they’re not even as close to the monster that is Assad. also, most westerners probably have a shallow understanding of middle eastern politics, and only knew Assad by name. but after the revolution, the horrors of his regime are finally becoming known globally. This is huge for everyone, especially for Syrians and us Arabs.
Don’t try to sympathize with monsters, dude.
Yeah so Pro US tyrants are “morons” but Assad is the most evil person ever (since Saddam Hussein presumably).
Meanwhile Jolani is a cuddly jihadist who should be integrated into the West at light speed. The facts that he bends the knee to Israel while it is invading and bombing Syria is pure coincidence.
Boy, you must be an Olympic champion at jumping to conclusions.
Sisi is evil and king Abdullah is a moron. there, better? but they haven’t committed crimes against humanity as bad as Bashar. They are tyrants. I’ll give you an example of another Pro-US tyrant who is evil. Mohammed bin Salman. I fucking hate his guts, not as much as Bashar, but i still want him gone. He has terrorized Saudi Arabia and drained our country and allocated it for himself and his megaprojects, and don’t even get me started on his human rights violations.
Literally where did I ever praise Jolani? I didn’t even bring him up. and where did I say that he should be integrated into the west? i don’t live in the west, i don’t care if he is integrated or not. fuck him, he can’t wash away his history with al-qaeda. But even he isn’t as bad as Bashar. that should tell you something about how evil Bashar actually is.
It may be a surprise to you, but have you considered that multiple things can be bad at once?
I sympathize with the message you want to bring across, what they do in Israel could never be the worst since the Nazis because they’re like us, they’re the only dem… I can’t even write that out because it’s such a propaganda lie, but yeah I get that.
On the other hand let me just agree with the other guy that there are just shitty and shittier dictatorships in the Middle East. Some of them are aligned with the US, some with Russia, all of them are corrupt motherfuckers who belong in jail. Arab leaders have collectively betrayed their people and who knows if that region will ever be free of imperialist forces.
Jail would be a mercy for those bastards. Fuck anyone who supports any dictator here.
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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.
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
I think we can all agree (at least I hope) that any amount of genocide is bad
Robert Kennedy wants to bring back Polio.
The Trump presidency will be littered with corpses.
Trump killed hundreds of thousands in his last presidency. He might break it this time if you combine both
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.
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.
