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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        5 hours ago

        Estimates are far higher than the official death toll - it’s hard to count bodies buried under the rubble.

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          3 hours ago

          Stop. Let the people of Syria be recognized for the horrors they lived through. Wtf is wrong with you?

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            1 hour ago

            I will not allow Palestinians to be erased! Or any of the other mass murders of over 100,000 people! This disrespects every atrocity that has happened since the end of WWII, by saying those ones either aren’t real or don’t count.