Rifaat al-Assad

Rifaat al-Assad was the younger brother of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and served as Vice President. He is most remembered, and condemned, for commanding the military units that carried out the 1982 Hama massacre, in which thousands of civilians were killed. Exiled in 1984 after a failed power grab, he spent decades in Europe and was convicted of money laundering in France. He died at 88.