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.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    No, we need to acknowledge that Assad is not the worst since WWII, otherwise we erase all the other atrocities that have happened.

    Other genocides have happened. Worse genocides have happened. History didn’t start and end in WWII.

    • wewbull@feddit.uk
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      3 days ago

      You do realise that saying “… it’s not the worst that’s happened” is also a form of erasure.

      …but of course, you do.