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  • The Assad Family's Darkest Moment

    12/08/2024 6:57:36 PM PST · by lasereye · 21 replies
    Richard's Substack ^ | December 8, 2024 | Richard Pollock
    The Syrian people are exuberant about the end of the Bashar al-Assad regime. But there is one atrocity by this notorious family that has been described as “one of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world.” That is the 1982 encirclement, starvation and mass execution of the residents of the Syrian city of Hama. This atrocity was committed by Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad. Last Friday, residents of Hama tore down the statue of Hafez al-Assad while the city fell to rebels. While much of the world just saw it as another Syrian city falling, its significance...
  • AP Interview: Self-exiled uncle of Syrian leader re-emerges as foe of troubled regime

    11/20/2011 2:57:26 PM PST · by nuconvert · 4 replies
    Washington Post ^ | Nov. 16, 2011
    -excerpt- ...Bashar Assad’s uncle, a former Syrian vice president and military strongman who many say has blood on his own hands....claimed Tuesday that the Syrian people need a strong, stable hand to end the crisis — and he’s just the man