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Syria’s interior ministry said on Friday it had arrested the main suspect in the 2013 Tadamon massacre, one of the worst acts of violence attributed to the former government of Bashar al-Assad, in which 288 civilians were killed.The ministry released footage of Amjad Yousef’s arrest in the Al-Ghab Plain area of Hama province in western Syria, near his hometown. Yousef had been hiding there since the overthrow of al-Assad at the end of 2024, a security source told Reuters.US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack welcomed the arrest in a post on X, calling it an important step toward accountability for atrocities committed during Syria’s war.Documenting the massacreYousef, 40, a former member of military intelligence under al-Assad, was thrust into the spotlight in April 2022 when the UK’s Guardian newspaper published videos provided by two academics that they said showed him forcing blindfolded civilians to run towards a pit in the Tadamon neighborhood of southern Damascus before shooting
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