A person walks by a damaged portrait of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad as individuals seek for belongings within the ransacked personal residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad within the Malkeh district of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday.
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Bashar al-Assad’s residence in Damascus was ransacked Sunday after rebels seized management of the Syrian capital, forcing the deposed president to flee the nation.
Photographs from the Related Press present Assad’s residence in shambles, with empty cupboards and books, work and different private belongings scattered throughout the flooring. In a single picture, a person is seen trying to take a lamp whereas others canvas the room. In one other, a gaggle of individuals pose with smiles and peace indicators the place Assad as soon as lived.
A person tries to take a lamp as individuals seek for belongings within the ransacked personal residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad within the Malkeh district of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday.
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The reactions from Syrians since Assad’s downfall replicate the deep animosity that he engendered inside the nation. For greater than 50 years, the Assad family ruled with an iron grip and regularly deployed Syria’s feared safety forces to crush dissent.
Assad, who took energy in 2000 following the demise of his father, was recognized for his violent crackdowns on opposition over greater than a decade of civil warfare in Syria. The U.S. and the United Nations have each blamed Assad for a chemical weapons assault that killed a whole lot — and maybe greater than 1,000 individuals — in 2013. A world arrest warrant was issued towards Assad final yr after France’s prime court docket accused him of complicity in warfare crimes through the civil warfare.
A gaggle of individuals take a household photograph whereas sitting on a sofa in a corridor of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, Sunday.
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Inside hours of rebels getting into the Syrian capital, Assad landed in Russia, the place in accordance the nation’s state-run information company Tass, he was granted asylum.
Individuals seek for belongings within the ransacked personal residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad within the Malkeh district of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday.
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The swift rebel campaign began lower than two weeks in the past, when fighters launched a collection of lightning offensives — first capturing the northern metropolis of Aleppo after which advancing south towards the regime facilities of energy, as uprisings broke out in massive swaths of the nation.
