“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.

    • FantasticDonkey@reddthat.comEnglish
      51·
      3 hours ago

      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.

      • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Jail would be a mercy for those bastards. Fuck anyone who supports any dictator here.

    • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      11 hours ago

      No one was saying that?

      I’m arab and even everyone that i know agrees the Ba’athists are straight up arab fascists.

      • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        5 hours ago

        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.

        • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          4 hours ago

          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.

          • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            56 minutes ago

            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.

            • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              48 minutes ago

              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.

              • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                11 minutes ago

                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.