[gargablegar]

They do make all the above points in the article - including that it’s hard to verify this information.

Comparing it to Stalin is pretty apt - communist party with a figure head trying to hold onto power. Seems like more than just one person vanished and it’s all under totally opaque circumstances.

[mytailorisrich]

If the information is difficult to verify the correct way is to be measured.

My main gripe here is the sensationalist take on complex issues, starting with the over-the-top title.

This could have been a substantive and interesting discussion...

Edit: I tried to look past the clickbaity title to get to the interesting part, which I think to find the reason for specific people being 'purged'. Alas it is apparently not possible...

[foldr]

The lack of information is the point. In a Western democracy, government ministers don't just go missing without any official explanation for their disappearance. (I am not suggesting that such official explanations are always true, but they at least exist.)

[LightHugger]

The thing that's flying over your head is that the people preventing it from being measured are the people you're giving the benefit of the doubt because it hasn't been measured.

In such cases, any rational actor has to assume the worst about the party preventing the measurement, to prevent rewarding that behavior and to encourage honest measurements.