Let's not forget that when Bashar al-Assad inherited the presidency from his father, the Syrian regime already had a long and murderous history and when the crunch came in 2011 it was willing to see several hundred thousand people dead, millions uprooted from their homes and large tracts of the country laid waste – all for the sake of clinging on to power. A gay bar here and there doesn't change that. Nor does the fact that the Assads tried to look more civilised by providing Damascus with a nice new opera house bearing the family's name.
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