REBELS have torched the coffin of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictator father after taking on Syria.
Camo-clad fighters could possibly be seen gathered across the flaming tomb within the Assad household’s hometown of Qardaha.
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Footage confirmed fighters and civilians cheering, celebrating and giving the coffin a center finger because it burned.
The flaming coffin was then dragged out of the tomb into the road.
Rebels raised a flag within the torched mausoleum as they swept away the stays of the Assad household’s bloody rule.
Videos broadly shared on Syrian media channels seem to indicate fighters and civilians stamping on the casket.
Hafez al-Assad first seized energy with a coup in 1971 – securing his dynasty’s energy for the subsequent 50 years.
He died within the yr 2000 – abandoning a bloody legacy that was adopted up by his third-choice son Bashar.
The most horrific atrocity of Hafez’s brutal rule was the Hama bloodbath in 1982.
His troopers besieged town to quell an rebellion and killed as much as 40,000 civilians.
Bombing raids, tank assaults, howitzer bombardments and chemical weapons have been unleashed on the inhabitants.
Troops then stormed town – rounding up households in a savage slaughter of innocents.
The savage bloodbath lasted three weeks.
It is believed to be one of the vital lethal acts of violence ever dedicated within the fashionable Middle East.
Hafez died of a coronary heart assault within the yr 2000 whereas on the telephone – and handed energy to his son Bashar.
Bashar was his third option to rule after his brother Rifaat, who was exiled after a failed coup, and his son Bassel, who died in a automotive crash.
And as soon as the geeky medical scholar took energy, he consolidated the household’s rule together with his personal model of merciless dictatorship.
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Assad’s grip was clenched utilizing brutal oppression, the “disappearing” of his enemies, and savage chemical weapons.
It was lastly loosened final week nonetheless when a insurgent rebellion led by former al-Qaeda splinter group Hayat Tahir al-Sham (HTS).
HTS forces and their allies sped throughout Syria in a matter of days – rapidly reaching Damascus.
Cowardly and weak Assad then fled on a aircraft to Russia – the place he was welcomed by his pal tyrant Vladimir Putin.
Putin has provided his pal – who has helped prop up for years – asylum.
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Syrian rebels at the moment are attempting to piece their nation again collectively and uncover proof of the atrocities dedicated by Assad.
The nation’s present de facto chief – HTS chief Abu Muhammed al-Jolani – has vowed to seek out Assad’s cronies.
It is reported at the least considered one of them has already been caught an executed – a commander of Syria’s so-called “Tiger Forces”.
Horrors have already been uncovered on the notorious Sednaya jail exterior Damascus.
Piles of our bodies have been discovered at a morgue close by, and stacks of sufferer’s garments have been found within the jail.
Blood-stained hangmans’ nooses and an iron press allegedly used to pulp our bodies have been additionally found contained in the “human slaughterhouse”.
The collapse of Syria brings an finish to the Assad regime – but in addition raises questions on what’s subsequent for the fractious Middle East.
Israeli forces have already blitzed Assad’s weapon stockpiles together with chemical weapons and his warships.
Tel Aviv has warned in regards to the dictator’s weapon stockpiles falling into the flawed palms.
And fears loom over a resurgence of terrorist teams equivalent to ISIS, which nonetheless could also be hiding within the deserts of Syria.
The world now awaits with bated breath to see what’s going to fill this new energy vacuum within the Middle East.
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