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This is insane. I had no idea it was that bad. Do you have any sources where I could learn more?

keenmaster 7y ago
Assad's torture dungeons - https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/16/if-dead-could-speak/mass-deaths-and-torture-syrias-detention-facilities https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/16/if-dead-could-speak/ma... Mass arbitrary execution - https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/middleeast/syria-executions-amnesty-international-report/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/middleeast/syria-executions-a... Rape and sexual violence used for political means - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/16/i-screamed-but-no-one-came-the-horrifying-sexual-violence-facing-syrias-girls/?utm_term=.6bd7ebbdd60e https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/16... Deliberate Syrian & Russian Air Force targeting of hospitals and systematic erasure of medical personnel - https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2016/03/syrian-and-russian-forces-targeting-hospitals-as-a-strategy-of-war/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2016/03/syrian-and... Chemical weapons used to gas civilian neighborhoods, including many children, even after the supposed removal of the chemical weapon stockpile (which earned Obama praise and earned the OPCW a Nobel Prize): - https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/06/u-n-commission-calls-out-syrian-government-for-sarin-attack/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/06/u-n-commission-calls-ou... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bM8kTOsOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bM8kTOsOk (warning: disturbing footage of gassed kids) Assad inviting terrorists into the country to use them to confuse the world, slander protesters, and obfuscate the genocide - https://www.thedailybeast.com/assad-henchman-heres-how-we-built-isis https://www.thedailybeast.com/assad-henchman-heres-how-we-bu... "Over 500,000 Syrians have been killed and 13 million Syrians have been forced from their homes in the worst humanitarian crisis since the World War II" - Holocaust Museum (emphasis added, that really means something coming from the Holocaust Museum) - https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-statement-on-worsening-atrocities-targeting-syrian-civilians https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museu... and Assad/Russia want people to believe that "the alternative is worse." The alternative is self-rule by the sweet, generous, loving people of Syria. Somehow, a social media campaign has convinced the world otherwise. Saying that there is a worse alternative, when half a million Syrians were killed (and counting), is to reduce Syrians to subhumans. That is especially insulting given that the alternative is often cited as "ISIS," even though Assad is the one who invited ISIS into the country, and the primary victims of ISIS were Syrians. Pravda is in our Facebook news feed, and that of our friends whom influence our opinions.

Assad's torture dungeons - https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/16/if-dead-could-speak/mass-deaths-and-torture-syrias-detention-facilities https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/16/if-dead-could-speak/ma... Mass arbitrary execution - https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/middleeast/syria-executions-amnesty-international-report/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/middleeast/syria-executions-a... Rape and sexual violence used for political means - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/16/i-screamed-but-no-one-came-the-horrifying-sexual-violence-facing-syrias-girls/?utm_term=.6bd7ebbdd60e https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/16... Deliberate Syrian & Russian Air Force targeting of hospitals and systematic erasure of medical personnel - https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2016/03/syrian-and-russian-forces-targeting-hospitals-as-a-strategy-of-war/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2016/03/syrian-and... Chemical weapons used to gas civilian neighborhoods, including many children, even after the supposed removal of the chemical weapon stockpile (which earned Obama praise and earned the OPCW a Nobel Prize): - https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/06/u-n-commission-calls-out-syrian-government-for-sarin-attack/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/06/u-n-commission-calls-ou... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bM8kTOsOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bM8kTOsOk (warning: disturbing footage of gassed kids) Assad inviting terrorists into the country to use them to confuse the world, slander protesters, and obfuscate the genocide - https://www.thedailybeast.com/assad-henchman-heres-how-we-built-isis https://www.thedailybeast.com/assad-henchman-heres-how-we-bu... "Over 500,000 Syrians have been killed and 13 million Syrians have been forced from their homes in the worst humanitarian crisis since the World War II" - Holocaust Museum (emphasis added, that really means something coming from the Holocaust Museum) - https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-statement-on-worsening-atrocities-targeting-syrian-civilians https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museu... and Assad/Russia want people to believe that "the alternative is worse." The alternative is self-rule by the sweet, generous, loving people of Syria. Somehow, a social media campaign has convinced the world otherwise. Saying that there is a worse alternative, when half a million Syrians were killed (and counting), is to reduce Syrians to subhumans. That is especially insulting given that the alternative is often cited as "ISIS," even though Assad is the one who invited ISIS into the country, and the primary victims of ISIS were Syrians. Pravda is in our Facebook news feed, and that of our friends whom influence our opinions.