Syrian mass graves show the worst abuses 'since the Nazis,' top prosecutor says
Syrian mass graves show the worst abuses 'since the Nazis,' top prosecutor says
“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.
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.
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".
Socialism is when death machine 🤡🤡🤡
Bog standard totalitarianism. Not socialism.
oh dear
Really? Nothing else since WWII has been this bad? I can think of three off the top of my head! Syria's neighbor is doing a holocaust right now. It's like they're pretending that nothing bad has happened since the Nazis were defeated.
You must not know what the definition of "worst" means.
The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 (c. 7.8 million) reducing the nation's life expectancy to a staggering 12 years in 1975.
Israel hasn't killed over 100,000 yet. Gaza is a lot smaller than Syria or Europe.
The official toll isn't over 100,000 (can't count people under the rubble) but estimates put it over 100,000 i.e. same order of magnitude. Gaza being smaller just makes these estimates even more horrifying.
But also, not just talking about Gaza. Lots of other atrocities have lead to mass death on this scale and larger.
It's going to take some time (and digging) to find out.
However... events that unfolded in Cambodia will almost certainly have exceeded what is going to be discovered in Syria.
Most likely the same can be said about things that happened in Indonesia.
Events that continue to happen in North Korea may possibly exceed - once the place collapses and access becomes possible - which may take a century - what Bashar and his father managed to organize.
I agree with your point but I think the Palestinian genocide is a bad example. Imo better examples from the top of my mind: the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides likely were far worse both in absolute numbers and as a % of the population, and the policies of Maoist China got many more people killed.
Yes, nothing.
No one here is claiming what Israel is doing isn't horrible (hell, you're the only one bringing it up). But, this is worse. Wild how there can be more than one bad thing and one being worse doesn't make the other one not bad, isn't it?
Don't argue with a .ml user when they move the goalposts to be "America bad" without any context. It's a losing battle.
This isn't worse! The official death toll is a massive undercount, the real death toll is probably in the same order of magnitude.
The Russians never stopped doing such things. Before, during and after WW2.
Remember folks, criticizing Israel is anti-semitism! Uncle Bibi told us so.
Only brown people can be Nazis
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.
GOP: hold my beer
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
Trump killed hundreds of thousands in his last presidency. He might break it this time if you combine both
Robert Kennedy wants to bring back Polio.
The Trump presidency will be littered with corpses.
I think we can all agree (at least I hope) that any amount of genocide is bad
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.