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Bashar al-Assad, who is he – the President of Syria has retrained from an ophthalmologist to a dictator – UNIAN
The Syrian president once called himself a reformer, bought time through brutal repression, but eventually succumbed to his many enemies.
Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. This position was intended for his older brother Basil, who was studying to be a military commander, while Bashar was studying to be an ophthalmologist. This is stated in the material of The Wall Street Journal.
The authors note that Assad was also not expected to become the last of his family's oppressive dynasty, which ruled Syria for 54 years.
First positioning himself as a modernizer of Syria's economy, Assad launched a brutal crackdown as protesters took to the streets. The violence sparked a civil war that destroyed entire cities…
