Known for role in brutal suppression in the 1980s, the former Defence Brigades head has died after a brief illness
Rifaat al-Assad, who was the uncle of the deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and was known as the “Butcher of Hama” for suppressing an uprising in the 1980s, has died aged 88, two sources close to the family have said.
Once a pillar of the Assad family’s dynastic rule, Rifaat “died after suffering from influenza for around a week”, one source who worked in Syria’s presidential palace for more than three decades told AFP on Wednesday.
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