Syrian Regime 'Investigates' Its Own Mass Grave, Forgets Who Dug It
Al-Monitor reports that Syria has secured an 'Assad-era' mass grave and opened a criminal investigation, following a Reuters report detailing a yearslong conspiracy to hide thousands of bodies. This sudden awakening to state-sponsored horrors, after over a decade of conflict and countless reports from human rights organizations, is a marvel of timing. The regime, which has systematically
disappeared and murdered untold thousands in its notorious prisons—as documented by the UN and human rights groups like Amnesty International—is now apparently shocked, *shocked* to find gambling in this establishment. It's almost as if the Syrian government needed Western media's permission to acknowledge its own history. The same regime that has consistently denied atrocities and targeted
hospitals with chemical weapons (as investigated by the OPCW), now promises a 'criminal investigation' into its own documented actions. How many times will an authoritarian regime investigate itself and find no wrongdoing before we stop platforming these performative inquiries as 'news'?