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| Riad Hijab |
Authoritative Tweep @THE_47th reports that Syria's Prime
Minister Riad Farid Hijab has defected to Jordan.
President Bashar al-Assad named Hijab prime
minister in early June, a month after parliamentary elections in
Syria, which were boycotted by the opposition.
BBC
News published his biography highlights on June 6:
- Born in 1966 in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria
- Married, with four children
- Holds a PhD in agriculture
- Joined the local branch of the Ba'ath Party command in 1998
- Named governor of the southern province of Quneitra in 2008
- Transferred to head the Latakia governorate around the time protests were first reported - credited in state media with negotiating an end to a sit-in
- Appointed minister of agriculture on 14 April 2011.
The death toll is rising in Syria faster than human rights and democracy, to no surprise this brutal dictorship is hanging on till the end.
ReplyDeleteIf the november death toll continues on this current trend it will exceed 800 deaths this month alone. Political oppression is like a cancer first within the affected nation and then spreading to outlying areas and nations borders. Although the Syrian regime calls these dissedents a threat to their nations security and way of life, the world knows that this is all the result of decades of oppression, and the lack of democracy and voting rights. People do according to international law have the right to elected governments through a fair election process:- if only the Syrian regime had allowed for democracy during their ruling years.
Kevin Graham