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Fares condemned Assad's regime in a statement broadcast on the satellite channel Al-Jazeera. "Where is the honor in killing your countrymen? Where is the national allegiance? The nation is all the people, not one person in particular," he said. "The allegiance is to the people, not to a dictator who kills his people." It was unclear where Fares recorded the statement. His current whereabouts remain unknown. Appointed to the Baghdad post four years ago, Fares was the first Syrian ambassador to Iraq in 26 years. Like Tlass, he is a member of the privileged Sunni elite in a regime dominated by Assad's minority Alawite sect.
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