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TIL Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of current embattled Syrian president, flaunted to Thomas Freidman that he killed 38,000 people in the 1982 Hama Massacre. He currently lives in the UK, and since there was no War Crimes Tribunal three decades ago, and the Statute of Limitations, he cannot be prosecuted.

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