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Rifaat al-Assad

1937 - Today

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Rifaat Ali al-Assad (Arabic: رِفْعَتُ عَلِيِّ ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Rifʿat al-ʾAsad; born 22 August 1937) is the younger brother of the late President of Syria, Hafez al-Assad, and Jamil al-Assad, and the uncle of the incumbent President Bashar al-Assad. He was the commanding officer of the ground operations of the 1982 Hama massacre ordered by Hafez al-Assad.After launching a failed coup attempt against Hafez al-Assad in 1984, Rifaat lived in exile in France for 36 years and returned to Syria in October 2021 after being found guilty in France of acquiring millions of euros diverted from the Syrian state. In September 2022, France's highest court, the Cour de Cassation, confirmed the ruling.In August 2023, Switzerland issued an international arrest warrant on Rifaat al-Assad after its Federal Criminal Court demanded his extradition to prosecute him for his role in supervising ground operations of the Hama Massacre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rifaat al-Assad has received more than 564,923 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rifaat al-Assad is the 5,817th most popular politician (up from 6,454th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Rifaat al-Assad has had the most page views in the with 80,184 views, followed by English (66,105), and Persian (17,323). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (99.57%), Central Bicolano (47.65%), and Hebrew (43.71%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rifaat al-Assad ranks 5,817 out of 19,576. Before him are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Yaakov Dori, Thomas Boni Yayi, Leopold Berchtold, and Theroigne de Mericourt. After him are Petr Fiala, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Sam Houston, Behgjet Pacolli, Aurelius of Asturias, and Koča Popović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Rifaat al-Assad ranks 90. Before him are Richard Møller Nielsen, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Naji al-Ali, Yoshirō Mori, Maryse Condé, and Cornelius A. Smith. After him are Franz Vranitzky, Boris Pugo, Bruce McCandless II, Billy Dee Williams, Ronald Venetiaan, and Neeme Järvi.

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