You have to be careful in Syria that you don't mysteriously die or disappear.
What goes around comes around
ABDULRAHMAN AL-RASHED
Published — Sunday 26 April 2015
Syria is the only country in the world where officials disappear and the regime then declares that suicide or mysterious circumstances were the reasons behind the deaths. In the case of Ghazaleh, some of the most circulated stories — including the semi-official ones — claim that he was killed after being beaten to death. Different government sources spread contradictory versions; the most ridiculous version is that he was heavily beaten because of a dispute with Rafiq Shehadeh, another security official, because the former insisted on participating in the fight against “terrorists” in his hometown Daraa.
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What goes around comes around
ABDULRAHMAN AL-RASHED
Published — Sunday 26 April 2015
- Former Syrian political security chief Rustom Ghazaleh, one of the country’s most notorious figures for the past two decades, has died.
Syria is the only country in the world where officials disappear and the regime then declares that suicide or mysterious circumstances were the reasons behind the deaths. In the case of Ghazaleh, some of the most circulated stories — including the semi-official ones — claim that he was killed after being beaten to death. Different government sources spread contradictory versions; the most ridiculous version is that he was heavily beaten because of a dispute with Rafiq Shehadeh, another security official, because the former insisted on participating in the fight against “terrorists” in his hometown Daraa.
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What goes around comes around Arab News