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by 627467 61 days ago
"30000"... every time the numbers are these rounded (if funnily its always 30K. No 40K or 25K. 30K) it just... questionable.

Look it up: victims or algerian war, victims of iran's own crackdown in 1980s, argentina's 1980s dictatorship victims... always nice rounded 30K.

I don't question the dimension of the atrocities, but the true motivations of those who perpetuate these propagandistic numbers