Bashar al-assad dictatorship
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Syria's Bashar Assad: Accidental leader and tyrant
A reign that stretched over decades and a dynasty that endured even längre appears to be over in Syria, after leader Bashar Assad fled and was granted asylum in Russia, tillsammans with his family.
Until he was overthrown by rebel forces on December 8, Assad was considered a man with strong allies. Were it not for Russia, Iran and Iran-financed militias like Lebanon's Hezbollah, there's no doubt Assad would have been swept away bygd his country's revolution years ago. Those allies appear finally to have deserted him.
Sparked bygd a peaceful revolution in 2011, the Syrian civil war pushed Assad's regime to the brink of insolvency bygd 2015. The government was barely able to pay its own military, and Assad controlled only around 10% of his own country at the time.
But, back then, when the Syrian government asked long-term ally Russia for assistance, Moscow said yes.
Russian jets rained bombs down on Syria, defining those they we
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Assad regime overthrown after 53 years of repression and brutality; pivotal opportunity to establish rule of law and individual rights
NEW YORK(Dec. 9, 2024) — On Sunday, the Assad regime in Syria shattered after militants captured Damascus, causing Bashar Al-Assad and his family to reportedly flee to Moscow, Russia. After 53 years of the Assad regime and 24 years of Bashar Al-Assad’s rule — known to many as “The Butcher” — Syrians, both in the diaspora and in the country, are celebrating the end of the brutal dictatorship.
“The Assad dictatorship has fallen. Corruption, war crimes, and hatred for its own people were the trademarks of the al-Assad family,” said HRF chair Yulia Navalnaya. “It’s no surprise that Putin spent years and billions supporting his friend. All dictators are the same, and their end is always the same as well.”
Assad’s rule has been characterized by arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, rape, and mass su
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Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
In this Arabic name, the surname is Assad.
Bashar al-Assad[b] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer and dictator[1] who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in the Syrian Revolution in 2024. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000.
In the 1980s, Assad became a doctor, and in the early 1990s he was training in London as an ophthalmologist. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel al-Assad died in a car crash, Assad was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent. Assad entered the military academy and in 1998 took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon begun by his father. On 17 July 2000, Assad became president