Syrian Rebels Announce Ousting Of President Bashar Al-Assad In Dramatic TV Broadcast
deadline.comSyrian rebels took to the airwaves on state Syrian TV on Sunday morning local time to announce they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad, after their shock seizure of the country’s capital of Damascus.
Footage circulating on social media channels shows the rebels taking control of the state TV building and entering the control gallery to ready the broadcast.
A group of nine men in casual clothes made an on-air statement saying they had toppled the “oppressive” al-Assad, and also freed prisoners being held in his regime’s notorious Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus.
Assad is reported to have flown out of the country to an unknown destination in the early hours of Sunday. The president’s flight ends his family’s 54-year stranglehold on the country which began when his father Hafez al-Assad seized power in a bloodless coup in November 1970.
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