Really? Nothing else since WWII has been this bad? I can think of three off the top of my head! Syria's neighbor is doing a holocaust right now. It's like they're pretending that nothing bad has happened since the Nazis were defeated.
There are 100.000 bodies in a single mass grave. And that is just one out of five. That's kinda in a league of its own.
Gaza is a mass grave at this point.
It is, but not this big yet.
This is bigger than Gaza, not like the IDF is not trying to catch up.
Estimates are far higher than the official death toll - it's hard to count bodies buried under the rubble.
Stop. Let the people of Syria be recognized for the horrors they lived through. Wtf is wrong with you?
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.
so because theres already a genocide no other genocides can exist? Yes, the Palestina genocide is bad, but that doesn't mean posting about any other genocide is hate towards Palestinians.
You don't get to say "the worst since WWII" when there were other genocides that compared or were worse since WWII. It's erasing history.
"Worst" is what I'm taking issue with.
Okay, thanks for sharing the source of your feelings. Your actions are still to hijack any and everything to be a soapbox. If there's any single one thing that can take this space, it's another genocide in the middle east. Like dude, come on..
He literally didn't say that. You're mad over a quote that doesn't exist. He literally said "some of the worst." I have seen video footage on BlueSky of the prisoners as they were executed and it is quite disturbing. "Like a machine," to kill them en masse is pretty apropos of what I saw.
Do you think that's okay? Do you think that's NOT some of the worst mass murder to happen since WW2? If you think it's an acceptable amount of murder, why?
You mean the country that is claiming Syrian sovereign space like the Golan Heights for their illegal settlements since the 90s?
And currently stealing even more land!
Well, now Syria is weakened from the revolution. That is the best time to go and steal some land!
The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 (c. 7.8 million) reducing the nation's life expectancy to a staggering 12 years in 1975.
You’re angry about a headline that abbreviates the actual story.
The very first paragraph of the article:
Mass graves uncovered in Syria in the days since President Bashar al-Assad wasoverthrown are exposing evidence of some of the worst abuses since the Nazis, a top international war crimes prosecutor said. [emphasis mine]
The article agrees with you. It’s only the headline that doesn’t.
This kind of anger and engagement at headlines is exactly what the media thrives off of. Don’t let them win by doing just that.
They win by getting you to click on the article. 🙄
They don't get to smuggle lies into headlines and then clarify in the article. They should be held accountable for that kind of click bait.
So contact NBC with your concerns. Arguing with people who can’t change it just makes people who might otherwise agree with you frustrated with your point of view.
How "whatabout" that.
Stop trying to shove this news under the carpet with your "I know worse but I won't tell you!!1!"
I'm trying to point out that history didn't start and end in WWII, and pointing to something just as bad happening right now.
It's going to take some time (and digging) to find out.
However... events that unfolded in Cambodia will almost certainly have exceeded what is going to be discovered in Syria.
Most likely the same can be said about things that happened in Indonesia.
Events that continue to happen in North Korea may possibly exceed - once the place collapses and access becomes possible - which may take a century - what Bashar and his father managed to organize.
Israel hasn't killed over 100,000 yet. Gaza is a lot smaller than Syria or Europe.
The official toll isn't over 100,000 (can't count people under the rubble) but estimates put it over 100,000 i.e. same order of magnitude. Gaza being smaller just makes these estimates even more horrifying.
But also, not just talking about Gaza. Lots of other atrocities have lead to mass death on this scale and larger.
After thinking about it, I've realized why they always use Nazis as the measuring stick: it's the last event of this type that the majority of Americans are familiar with.
Which I think says quite a bit about the education level of our populace
I don't think we need to play Topp Trumps Genocide Edition. Can we just agree that it's horrific what Assad (and by extension, Putin) have been doing in Syria?
Has the US investigator seen this yet?
'All the cemeteries are full': Palestinians buried in a mass grave in Gaza
Have they been in a prison where they were regularly and systematically tortured, and that for decades, before they ended up in those bags?
Not even a fucking month has passed and people with .ml accounts are already trivialising Assad. Tankies gotta stick to their own, I guess.
I don't understand this comment but yes the Palestinian in Gaza were in a giant prison, they get restricted access to food, no freedom of movement, and when they try to peacefully leave got shot in the knees by sniper.
You missed the industrial-scale torture part. There's been some instances of torture, yes, but nothing even close to what happened in Syria in matters of both scale and systematics. The IDF, at large, has always been more interested in killing people than pure, unadulterated, sadism.
You're rightfully enraged about the plight of the Palestinians, now don't turn around and deny the plight of Syrians by drawing false equivalences. If you want to draw an equivalence for the Syrian situation try North Korea.
And those who were in officially “Israeli” prisons, got raped according and torture.
Both things can be bad.
They are both bad. But the Assad stuff is highlighted while Gaza is ignored. The selective standards are the problems.
Comparisons to the Holocaust are suddenly possible without anyone saying "no the Holocaust was when people were burned so Gaza is not a Holocaust". No semantics warriors show up to defend Assad.
I really hope that there can be some sort of coalition for peace and recovery among the various Syrian forces now that Assad is out of power.
Mmm. We all know how this is going to go.
The "good guys" are all of a sudden going to see the potential to have power over others, and then feel entitled to do whatever they can to maintain and expand that power.
Before long, we have another Assad regime that's different in name only.
It's a cultural problem, and greed is the root of it all.
Since the Nazis? Cambodian genocide doesn't even get a look in, eh?
Finally, a comparison which doesn't fall flat on its face like much of the rest of this thread. The intensity in Cambodia was extreme, it was under four years and 1.5 to three million killed, tortured, experimented upon, you name it. Even with everything else assumed equal the Assads were way slower at doing things.
Only brown people can be Nazis
No one was saying that?
I'm arab and even everyone that i know agrees the Ba'athists are straight up arab fascists.
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.
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