{"id":49096,"date":"2026-01-22T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/?p=49096"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:42:38","slug":"who-was-rifaat-al-assad-syrias-butcher-of-hama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/2026\/01\/22\/who-was-rifaat-al-assad-syrias-butcher-of-hama\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Rifaat al-Assad, Syria&#8217;s &#8216;Butcher of Hama&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\" data-end=\"1814\" data-start=\"1611\">According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, around 40,000 people were killed and at least 17,000 forcibly disappeared. Entire neighbourhoods were levelled, along with 79 mosques and three churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, around 40,000 people were killed and at least 17,000 forcibly disappeared. Entire neighbourhoods were levelled, along with 79 mosques and three churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Who was Rifaat al-Assad, Syria's 'Butcher of Hama'?","_seopress_titles_desc":"%%post_excerpt%%","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"syria,rifaat,snhr,Syrian Network for Human Rights","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-23"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49099,"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49096\/revisions\/49099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.snhr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}