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- world@quokk.au
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In the largest killing in Iran’s contemporary history – carried out largely over two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9 – at least 12,000 people were killed.
In terms of geographic scope, intensity of violence, and the number of deaths in a short time span, this killing is unprecedented in Iran’s history.
Based on information received, those killed were mainly shot by forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij.
This killing was fully organized, not the result of “sporadic” and “unplanned” clashes.
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The only thing anyone should take from this right now is that we don’t know how many people have been killed. There are so many varried numbers reported and very few places without a political agenda to get info from. I don’t think anyone truly knows, all we know is that a lot of people have been killed and that will continue to happen.
There are wildly different numbers being thrown about. I’ve seen 500 to 12,000 now. Anyone have any idea how reliable these numbers are?
The article has this to say:
After cross-checking information obtained from reliable sources, including the Supreme National Security Council and the presidential office, the initial estimate by the Islamic Republic’s security institutions is that at least 12,000 people were killed in this nationwide killing.
This makes it sound like their 12k number is coming from… the government doing the killing? I’m a little confused about that. It doesn’t seem conventional for dictators to release casualty counts for their pogroms. Are they perhaps trying to send a threatening message to everyone to stay home, and puffing up that number?
not at all lol
It’s the fog of war (so to speak) we will have a clear estimate when the revolt comes to an end with either the regime gone or the regime successfully crushing another mass protest
12,000? Why not 20,000 or 150,000?
Its all atrocity propaganda at this point to manufacture consent for war.
This is just stupid.
12,000? that’s like 2 weeks of Ukrainian casualties during the deadliest part of the war. Russia was using artillery and drones and 500kg bombs to get those numbers.
12,000 in 14 days? That’s faster than israel when they were indiscriminately bombing Gaza which had the highest population density in the world.
