Syria

[Banks of the Bann]

Oh dear..will these two clowns fess up and admit they were wrong about the ophthalmologist from London?

Maybe once the international war crimes experts get there and start digging up the many many mass graves?

Will they feck.

https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1869135472573944189?s=46

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/da422ebb-44dd-4476-a275-1edbb0a61456

Tadamon was turned into an industrial killing field by militias loyal to Bashar al-Assad during Syria's 13-year civil war.  In one basement, several frayed rope nooses hung from rafters. In another, the smell of death lingered from a mound of unidentifiable corpses. These are the consequence of what residents and rights groups have described as years of unfettered atrocities conducted by forces loyal to Assad, including siege, slaughter, torture and brutal sexual violence.
 
"Everywhere we stand, we are probably standing on dead bodies," one 10-year-old boy told the Financial Times.. Extrajudicial killings, mass executions and enforced disappearances were consistent features of the Assad family rule

Fighters took women they had abducted from the neighbourhood, then raped and killed them. Tadamon is one example of the pattern of fear and repression that characterised life under the NDF. "The men that used to rule here, they used to rape women in front of their husbands and then shoot the husband," one resident said.

Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have been killed in Syria since 2011, when Assad's brutal crackdown on protesters triggered a full-scale civil war. Extrajudicial killings, mass executions and enforced disappearances were consistent features of both Assad's rule and that of his father Hafez, who ruled from 1970 until his death in 2000. What happens next in neighbourhoods like Tadamon will be a test case for Syria's new rulers.

[Milltown Row2]

Watched the film A Private War, about Maria Colvin covering what's she described as the worst uprising she'd ever covered in 2012 in Homs during the first attempt to overthrow Assad.

Those correspondents are different a  breed