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Blumont, a Virginia-based humanitarian aid group responsible for the management of two of Syria’s IS detention camps, al-Hol and al-Roj, was given a stop-work order on 24 January by the US state department.

The camp holds the relatives of suspected IS fighters and is mostly populated by women and children. Rights groups have for years warned that detainees are held arbitrarily without charges in inhumane and substandard living conditions.

No charges have been raised against the camp’s population. Despite this, they are unable to leave, with the exception of non-Syrian detainees whose countries agree to take them back.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

They're gonna wish they did a Xiajiang style re-educate and release style program. Boys have been born in this camp, aged out of the women and children camp, and put straight into a prison with adult men who were doing actual terrorism.

Basically an extremism factory, almost as if it was done on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I edited that title. TheGuardian can take a hike on this one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I usually dislike this sort of editorialising, but you've pointed it out, and I can't say I disagree.

people detained in tented camps

If we're calling the "tented camps" at Guantanamo concentration camps, then these definitely qualify as well.

The legacy media's failure to call Nazi salutes and concentration camps what they are is irresponsible and dangerous.

The only thing you could further do is mention that you've editorialised the title in the title itself by [tagging] it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I thought this was an onion piece at first

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Interesting. AP leaves out the word "alleged" from the title and mentions it later in the article.

Associated Propaganda doing a bang on job of lying even harder than TheGuardian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For anybody curious what's going on in this region I highly recommend the podcast The Woman's War. Its a great listen by the same guy who does Behind the Bastards.