Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘butcher of Hama’, dies at 88
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A former army officer who helped Hafez al-Assad seize power in a 1970 coup and establish his iron rule, Rifaat continued to harbor presidential ambitions during years of exile spent mostly in France.
