Some arrows hitting the mark here, but as usual, an editor with a weed-whacker would be useful.

"We do know for a fact the children, around 150,000 of them, mostly ripped from their homes and sometimes literally from their parent’s arms, would likely have appreciated getting their hands on a few bad apples, as some of them were indisputably, and often deliberately, with the knowledge of the government and – in the name of “science” – starved."

Any 60 word sentence with six commas and two dashes is bound to leave readers disoriented.