He now finds a image to the Readers of the perpetrator of the top humanitarian crisis of today, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Asad is the only 1 of the above list of criminals who lives, although the overthrown by the rebellion had to flee Damascus. The Russian press agency reported on December 8, 2024 that his plane landed in Moscow, where the Assad household was granted asylum.
His ancestors were peasants from a village in the Alawi Mountains. They were alavits, Muslims who understood the Quran differently and his recommendations. 1 of the ancestors became celebrated for fighting Sunni oppressors and changed his ancestral name to al-Assad, or lion. Hafiz al-Assad, Bashar's father, was a prominent Syrian politician, president of the state for 3 decades.