Rifaat al-Assad, Syria’s ‘butcher of Hama’, dies at 88, family says ...Middle East

Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of Syria’s deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad and known for his bloody crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood uprising in 1982 which earned him the nickname “the butcher of Hama”, has died in the United Arab Emirates, a family member said on Wednesday. He was 88. Once one of the most powerful figures in Syria, Rifaat later vied for the presidency and was eventually forced to flee into exile.

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