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Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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Most obvious bait ever

It's definitely bait but there is definitely not the same reaction to this among that group of people and when one asks the question "why?", there aren't a multitude if explanations that come to mind.

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

#32

How is this possible without explosives? Even with vehicle mounted machine guns it seems like a crazy high number. Did the protestors get boxed in somehow? And across so many locations, that seems to require a crazy amount of coordination to kill so many in so little time.

They executed every protestor that was arrested or in the hospital (estimated at ~28k.)

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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I can't comprehend how a population can kill that many of their own people. They aren't even an "other" people, which has been the most common scapegoat lately. Same skin color, same religion, same language, same homeland.

I can easily comprehend it, the history books are full of people killing large numbers of their own people. They just find some irrelevant differentiating factor that allows them to label the other as the outgroup and bring out the guns, the tanks, the ovens and the bombs.

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Are these really left and right issues?

IE as the right is becoming more anti-Israel, you find a lot more pro Islamic Republic stuff there these days. The boomer and zoomer right are very different beasts.

I don't follow the left as closely these days, but imagine there are a myriad of opinions on the matter.

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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How do you know? Do you have links for that information? And if true they’d be regular murders brought in, not mercenaries.

Mercenaries are murderers for hire. Also, read the article. :)

I think the point is that its believed they were foreigners who were part of iranian proxy forces (e.g. iranian backed militias in iraq), so weren't doing it for money but out of some sort of loyalty to the iranian regime or ideology.

Usually mercenaries mean people doing it for money not ideology who get paid significantly more than your average soldier.

Re: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

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How is this possible without explosives? Even with vehicle mounted machine guns it seems like a crazy high number. Did the protestors get boxed in somehow? And across so many locations, that seems to require a crazy amount of coordination to kill so many in so little time.

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