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Rifaat al-Assad

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Rifaat Ali al-Assad (Arabic: رِفْعَتُ عَلِيِّ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Rifʿat al-ʾAsad; born 22 August 1937) is a Syrian former military officer and politician. He is the younger brother of the late President of Syria, Hafez al-Assad, and Jamil al-Assad, and the uncle of the former President Bashar al-Assad. He was the commanding officer of the ground operations of the 1982 Hama massacre ordered by his brother. After launching a failed coup attempt against Hafez al-Assad in 1984, Rifaat lived in exile in Europe for 36 years and returned to Syria in October 2021 after being found guilty in France of acquiring millions of euros diverted from the Syrian state. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rifaat al-Assad is the 2,354th most popular politician (up from 5,812th in 2019). (up from 874th in 2019)

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Among politicians, Rifaat al-Assad ranks 2,354 out of 19,576. Before him are Juraj Jánošík, Claudia Octavia, Emperor Guangwu of Han, Athalaric, Kim Yong-nam, and Serzh Sargsyan. After him are Frederick III of Sicily, Émile Loubet, John Turner, Emperor Ruizong of Tang, Pompeia, and Casimir IV Jagiellon.

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Among people born in 1937, Rifaat al-Assad ranks 31. Before him are Avram Hershko, Warren Beatty, Joseph Estrada, Egon Krenz, Mengistu Haile Mariam, and Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples. After him are Alain Badiou, Colin Renfrew, Bruce McLaren, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Robert Huber, and Philip Glass.

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