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Bookmark or Share- 1981 Hama massacre - WikipediaThe 1981 Hama massacre occurred after a failed attack around 21–22 April 1981 by armed Islamist guerrillas (reports identify a security checkpoint or a spring festival) near an Alawite village near Hama. [5] [6] [7] As a revenge action, government units deployed into Hama and launched house-to-house searches, sealing off neighborhoods as street fighting erupted. [5]
- Remembering the Hama Massacre - Council on Foreign RelationsFor three weeks, from February 2 to 28, 1982, the Syrian regime cracked down on insurgents and the innocent residents of Hama in what Robin Wright termed “the single deadliest act by any Arab...
- 1982 Hama massacre - WikipediaIn April 1964, riots broke out in Hama, where Muslim insurgents put up "roadblocks, stockpiled food and weapons, ransacked wine shops." After an Ismaili Ba'ath militiaman was killed, riots intensified and rebels attacked "every vestige" of the Ba'ath party in Hama.
- 30 Years Later, Photos Emerge From Killings In Syria : NPRSyria's President Hafez Assad brutally crushed an uprising in the central city of Hama in 1982. The event was remarkable not just for the scale of the violence, but also because virtually no...
- Syrian rebels close in on Hama, a city synonymous with ... - NBC NewsHama was the site of the Assad regime’s bloody crackdown on protesters in 2011 and the scene of widespread destruction in 1982. Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims were killed there at the order...
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