In Bashir Al Assad’s case, a “lifetime” would be 17 years, since 2000 when he was first elected and has been reelected twice since in 2007 and again in 2014
He is neither his father Hafez nor his reckless screw loose brother Basel, the groomed heir-apparent who was killed in an accident
The serious death toll in Syria started only after the incited “civil” war started targeting his government with snipers - police and military and supporters and their families - resulted from typical “arab spring” tactics as we have seen in other countries, including Ukraine. Before 2011 and the western/Saudi plot to overthrow Assad by forcing him into a force crackdown on his opponents, it’s hard to find any good data on Syrians killed by their own government, ie, Bashir Al Assad...the “hundreds of thousands of deaths” figure is the combined total of deaths from the so-called “civil war” (so-called because it was foreign instigated funded planned and supported by tens of thousands of foreign jihadist were/are fighting in Syria
The most apparently neutral observers reporting on the ground from Syria indicate Assad is very popular
Well, I certainly agree that Obama/Hillary with SA money was the primary cause in violence and killing.
Lots of steps, many petro dollars, lots of evil vermin.