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Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by adhd_traco@piefed.social to c/news@beehaw.org

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“These vehicles make dozens of trips back and forth from storage facilities … I have seen bodies in these trucks so stuck together it required strength to pull them apart. The blood was still fresh and dried up when they overcrowded them in piles.”

One witness at Behesht-e Sakineh, who was granted access to the site to look for the body of a friend, says he personally searched through hundreds of “stacked” bodies and was told by graveyard staff that they had “received thousands of bodies just in the past two days”.

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[–] vikinghoarder 4 points 2 weeks ago

What a fucking nassacre

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fake imperial news set on recycle.

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