(Zaman Al Wasl)- The newly appointed Interior minister Mohammed Rahmoun has made a shake-up transfer within the powerful ministry included 40 brigadiers and 16 colonels, pro-regime media reported.
Analysts say Bashar al-Assad has appointed Maj. Gen. Rahmoun to crush all opposition. Rahmoun proved that he is a brutish henchman to carry out his dirty work.
The internal transfer seems a tradition with any new minister but the ‘reshuffle’ indicated to the ultimate power of Rahmoun who seemed unbreakable.
Rahmoun is the former head of Syria’s Political Security Directorate, a dark force thought to be responsible for the arrest and torture of tens of thousands of anti-regime activists.
The War College graduate is one of Mr Al Assad’s chief acolytes. As an Air Force Intelligence brigadier in 2011, he oversaw the detention and torture of thousands in Harasta, Douma and Barzeh. Prisoners under his watch were reportedly forced to dig tunnels and trenches for the regime.
He was involved in the 2013 chemical attack in Ghouta that claimed the lives of more than 1,300 victims. For that, he appears to have earned his stripes and was promoted to the rank of major general, giving him a seat at the table of the 2017 Astana talks that relegated the UN-led Geneva process to the sidelines.
To get the measure of this man, we have only to learn he must have sanctioned the 2017 chemical attack Khan Sheikhoun, in which 80 people died in horrific circumstances, despite it being his own place of birth. (Zaman Al Wasl, The National)
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