“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.

  • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    6 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
      1·
      2 minutes 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.