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.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    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”.

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      26 minutes ago

      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?

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        12 minutes ago

        Socialism is when the workers own the means of production; How would that cause genocide in your opinion?

        What do you mean, “would”?

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          You implied that socialism kills. How?

          Perhaps you meant authoritarianism?