Required reading for everyone who feels that "anti-imperialist principles" or realpolitik oblige them to support the Assad regime. You& #39;re just validating systematic industrial-scale rape, torture, and murder as a means of suppressing civilian dissent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/1...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/1...
what a lovely precedent it sets when large elements of the global "left" come to support something 10x worse than the Gulag, when there isn& #39;t even a dream of socialist revolution to defend (in fact, almost the only revolutionaries on the scene are among the guys getting tortured)
(oh & to those who take the "whatever the western press says about those W& #39;rn govts dislike, the opposite must be true" position, you do realise that HR groups all said Syria applied rape, torture & murder on a mass scale EVEN BACK WHEN IT WAS A US ALLY ON THE WAR ON TERROR