Syrian Rebels Torch Tomb of Hafez al-Assad in Qardaha
The tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, AFP footage taken Wednesday showed, with rebel fighters in fatigues and young men watching it burn.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor told AFP the rebels had set fire to the mausoleum, located in the Latakia heartland of Assad’s Alawite community.AFP footage showed parts of the mausoleum ablaze and damaged, with the tomb of Hafez torched and destroyed.n18oc_world n18oc_crux
