It’s a mess to find this in Wowhead, but i found a post where a player was talking about it:
So death camps were a thing in the first build. I also clearly remember the outrage back then.
Useless to say that the civilans “saved” in Lor’danel were probably among them.
i said “probably” judging by how much whisps we saw in game, Astranaar was a village but not a big one maybe.
Remember that in reality, everything is bigger than what we have IG.