Hafez al-Assad

Hafez al-Assad (October 6, 1930 - June 10, 2000) was the President of Syria from 1971 to 2000.

References

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• Friedman, Thomas (1990, British edition). From Beirut to Jerusalem. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0006530702 (pp. 76-105)
• Human Rights Watch (1996). Syria's Tadmor Prison. HRW Report, Vol. 8, No. 2.