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Syria's new government has detained Major-General Mohammed Ali Durgham, a former military officer accused of participating in the 1982 Hama massacre and ordering troops to shoot unarmed protesters during the 2011 uprising. The arrest marks part of a broader accountability effort by Syria's interim authorities, led by former opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, to prosecute officials from the ousted Assad regime.