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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | December 19th, 2024: Mass Graves Expose Assad's 'Machinery Of Death' & Zelensky Admits Ukraine Cannot Reclaim Lost Territories
19 Dec 2024
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, we’ll bring you some truly horrifying discoveries from Syria, where mass graves uncovered since the overthrow of the Assad regime are exposing some of the worst war crimes and human rights abuses since the Nazis. Then, an update on the war in Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky warns the west that Kyiv does not currently have the military strength to retake their captured territory from Russia. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Patriot Gold: Call 1-888-870-5457 for a free investor guide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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So go to PatriotGoldGroup.com or call 1-888-621-3856 for a free investor guide. It's Thursday, 19 December. Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First, disturbing discoveries from Syria, where mass graves found following the downfall of the Assad regime suggest hundreds of thousands of people.
were tortured and killed under the repressive regime since the civil war began back in 2011. Then, an update on the war in Ukraine, as President Zelensky warns the West that Kyiv doesn't currently have the military strength to retake their captured territory from Russia. But first, our afternoon spotlight.
I want to begin with an update out of Syria, where mass graves uncovered since the overthrow of the Assad regime are exposing some of the worst war crimes and human rights abuses since Nazi times.
Officials with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a US-based Syrian advocacy organization, said they believe there are more than 100,000 bodies buried at a mass grave discovered on the outskirts of Damascus, and that it's likely just a portion of the victims tortured and killed under the Assad regime.
So far, the group has identified at least three other mass grave sites, along with two smaller ones, and estimate the total number of victims of the Assad regime since the civil war began in 2011 to be in the hundreds of thousands. That's according to our report from Reuters.
Opposition groups and rescue workers are still sifting through the sites and collecting evidence of the many human rights abuses committed by Assad's government over his 24-year reign. They say more than 150,000 people are still considered missing, though many were likely tortured and killed by what international war crimes prosecutors have called Assad's state-run machinery of death.
Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, toured the mass grave sites in Syria on Tuesday and said what he saw was, quote, sickening. Assad reigned over his country with a bloody fist and engaged in a level of brutality not seen since Hitler. Rapp told Reuters, "...we really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis.
From the secret police who disappeared people from their streets and homes, to the jailers and interrogators who starved and tortured them to death, to the truck drivers and bulldozer drivers who hid their bodies, thousands of people were working in this system of killing."
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