BOOK REVIEW: Assad: An underestimated tyrant and merchant of terror
‘Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny’ covers the savage conflict of the Syrian civil war and how Bashar al-Assad has used terror to maintain his grip on power
07 December 2023 - 05:00
A new book about Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, aggregates his evildoings and depressingly confirms that the world has largely chosen to forget them.
The term “baby-faced assassin” comes from sports, connotating a gentle-looking player with a killer instinct to seize any advantage. It’s apposite for Assad, Syria’s president since July 2000, whose regime has brutally quelled any and all opposition. ..
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