Rifaat al-Assad, Paramilitary Leader and ‘Butcher of Hama,’ Dies at 88 ...Middle East

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against his family’s rule.

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