# What has been the worst ever crime of the Assad family, bar the chemical attacks?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 24, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-worst-ever-crime-of-the-assad-family-bar-the-chemical-attacks/843932 "2019-11-24T22:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spherical\_Bus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Spherical\_Bus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spherical_Bus)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-worst-ever-crime-of-the-assad-family-bar-the-chemical-attacks/843932/1 "2019-11-24T22:10:20Z")

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I know I have not been here in a long time, but because Quora won’t answer my question, I will ask it here for a more reliable audience.

As you all know, Syria is among the most embattled countries on Earth, if nor the most considering that Syria is second only to North Korea in terms of the shittiness of its government.

I know that Assad’s gangs have committed many, many crimes, but what has been the worst? I’ll ask you to leave out the myriads of chemical weapons used in the war, since that is basically self-redundant.

I’m very unsure whether this should go in some other section though.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-worst-ever-crime-of-the-assad-family-bar-the-chemical-attacks/843932/2 "2019-11-24T22:21:15Z")

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Destruction of the city of Hamah in 1982.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-worst-ever-crime-of-the-assad-family-bar-the-chemical-attacks/843932/3 "2019-11-24T22:24:11Z")

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Since “worst ever” is subject to interpretation, let’s move this to IMHO.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-worst-ever-crime-of-the-assad-family-bar-the-chemical-attacks/843932/4 "2019-11-25T02:28:02Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> Destruction of the city of Hamah in 1982.

First reply nails it. I’d heard of 25,000 dead civilians from the atrocity; wiki has it between 1 and 40,000. [1982 Hama massacre - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre)

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-worst-ever-crime-of-the-assad-family-bar-the-chemical-attacks/843932/5 "2019-11-25T04:43:52Z")

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Isn’t the IP referring to Bashar Assad?

The 72 kinds of torture that murdered 14,000 people during the civil war is disgusting.

> **[Documentation\_of\_72\_Torture\_Methods\_the\_Syrian\_Regime\_Continues\_to\_Practice\_in\_Its\_Detention\_Centers\_and\_Military\_Hospitals\_en.pdf](https://snhr.org/wp-content/pdf/english/Documentation_of_72_Torture_Methods_the_Syrian_Regime_Continues_to_Practice_in_Its_Detention_Centers_and_Military_Hospitals_en.pdf)**
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