“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.

  • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
    42·
    8 days ago

    You must not know what the definition of “worst” means.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
      28·
      8 days ago

      I must not! I’m pretty sure “worst since the Nazis” means " nothing between now and then was worse". As far as I was aware, worst means worse than everything else.

      Worse than Indonesia. Cambodia. Algeria. Iraq. Korea. Vietnam. Yugoslavia. Evidently no atrocities have happened since WWII! 🙄

      • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        It’s like they’re pretending that nothing bad has happened since the Nazis were defeated.

        That’s different from saying you think worse things happened.

        Might want to brush up on your reading comprehension, buddy.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
          27·
          8 days ago

          If something is “the worst” then nothing worse happened, ergo, they’re pretending that all the other worse things didn’t happen. Evidently, the million people that were killed in Iraq and Indonesia just aren’t as important.