By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023
The Devastation of South Africa is What Always Happens When a Soviet Asset Gets to Power
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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on February 7, 2017
Amnesty International released a report today, “Human Slaughterhouse,” documenting the conditions in Sednaya prison, run by the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which amount to extermination as a crime against humanity. In addition to the deliberately insanitary conditions, routinized torture and maltreatment, there has been—and continues to be—a systematic campaign of extra-judicial massacre in which perhaps 13,000 people have perished. These findings buttress previous findings, and come with some political implications as the new American administration seeks to chart its way forward in Syria. Continue reading