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Syria military police chief defects to opposition

Syria’s military police chief has announced his defection from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, accusing the army of having turned into “murderous gangs,” in a video posted online. “I, General Abdel Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, commander of Syrian military police, announce that I am defecting from the…