A former Syrian army general living in Sweden has been acquitted by a Swedish court of charges related to war crimes allegedly committed over a decade ago in his home country. Brig. Gen. Mohammed Hamo, accused of aiding and abetting crimes against international law, was acquitted after being charged in February. Prosecutors claimed that as head of the Ordnance Department of the Syrian Army's 11th Division, he supplied weapons used in war crimes in 2012.
Hamo, now 65 years old, is reported to be the highest-ranking military officer to face trial in a European court for international human rights violations in Syria. His background reveals that in June 2012, he was transferred to northern Syria, where he later left the army and fled to Turkey. Subsequently, he joined a group opposing the Syrian regime before seeking asylum in Sweden in 2015.
