Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘butcher of Hama’, dies at 88
SABC News | 22.01.2026 01:35
Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully challenging for power and going into exile, died on Tuesday.
