Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘butcher of Hama’, dies at 88
SNHR in Media2026Syria's Rifaat al-Assad, the 'butcher of Hama', dies at 88
In 2022 the independent Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) monitoring group, citing informed estimates, alleged that between 30,000 and 40,000 civilians were killed in Hama.