Financial Times
How the Assad family built an empire of fear in Syria
12. dec. 2024 KL. 10.53
Hafez and his son Bashar killed countless people over five decades and oversaw the country’s descent into kleptocracy
On Sunday morning, as gaunt detainees flooded out of Syrian regime prisons and jubilant Damascenes streamed into the presidential palace to root around among abandoned designer shopping bags, Bashar al-Assad was nowhere to be found.
