• freagle@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone

    That’s an average 15k people per day.

    Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day which exceeds the daily death toll of any other major conflict of recent years, Oxfam said today, as the escalation of hostilities nears its 100th day. Source

    You want to tell me that Israel could only kill 250 people a day, with tanks, fighter jets, bomber jets, and white phosphorous, but somehow Iran killed 15k a day?

    Stop being so fucking credulous.

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      4 months ago

      “Most spasms of killing are not from shootings,” said Les Roberts, a professor at Columbia University who specializes in the epidemiology of violent death. “In Aleppo [Syria] and in Fallujah [Iraq], when spasms of death this high have occurred over a few days, it involved mostly explosives with some shooting.”

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      Witnesses say millions were in the streets when authorities shut down the internet and all other communications with the outside world. Rooftop snipers and trucks mounted with heavy machine guns opened fire, according to eyewitnesses and cell phone footage. On Friday, Jan. 9, an official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on state television to anyone venturing into the streets, “if … a bullet hits you, don’t complain.”

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    4 months ago

    This makes me ill…

    “The only parallel offered by online databases occurred in the Holocaust. On the outskirts of Kyiv on Sept. 29 and 30, 1941, Nazi death squads executed 33,000 Ukrainian Jews by gunshot in a ravine known as Babyn Yar.”