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	Hama massacre Information
		The Hama massacre occurred when the government of Syria attacked the town of Hama and killed thousands of people on February 2, 1982.
		The goal of the attack on Hama was to cease the rebellious activities of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
		According to Amnesty International, the Syrian military bombed the old streets of the city from the air to facilitate the introduction of military forces and tanks through the narrow streets, where homes were crushed by tanks during the first four days of fighting.
	www.bookrags.com /Hama_Massacre (830 words)

	Hama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the capital of the Hama Governorate.
		In 605 BC, the remains of the Egyptian garrison of Carchemish was annihilated at Hama by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.In 554/553 Hama was the target of a campaign by Nabonidus of Babylon.
		An early Mamluk governor of Hama was Abu al-Fida (reigned 1310–30), the historian and geographer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hama (1158 words)

	SHRC.org \| Massacre of Hama (February 1982) Genocide and A crime against Humanity\| 2005 Reports
		In the memory of the 24th year since the massive massacre of Hama, and in the light of the detailed analysis of the tragedy which in the city: place, people and history, and the influence of this tragedy on Syria: the country and citizens.
		Preceding the massacre the regime started to provoke practises against the citizens by killing, arresting, bombing houses and abusing the children, women and elderly this was the spark, which lead to the ignition of the bloodshed.
		The massacre that took place at the mosque: Alkhanikan, the massacre of Abu Ali Altaneesh, the massacre of the Turkumani family and the massacre of the Shariah secondary school, were all committed in the Bashoorah district, the number of people killed in these massacres was over 60, and among them were many women and children.
	www.shrc.org /data/aspx/d5/2535.aspx (3913 words)

	Hamah, Syria
		Hama is a city that is located on the Orontes in Syria, north of the city of Homs.
		The town was shelled by the Syrian military, and the massacre claimed 30,000 to 40,000 civilian lives.
		In 605 BC, the remains of the Egyptian garrison of Karkemish was annihilated at Hama by the Babylonian king Nebukadnezar.
	www.creekin.net /c6847-n179-hamah-syria.html (498 words)

	SHRC.org \| The Massacre of Hama (1982) ... Law application requires accountability \| 1999 Reports
		Hama uprising marked a clear change of the Syrian government policy in favour of employing the armed forces to repress the political violence flared out between 1979 and 1982.
		Hama’s civilians were the worst victim of the massacre.
		Therefore, International law and human rights are required to open a wide inquest on the events of Hama seventeen years ago and to determine the criminal responsibility of the massacre as an act of genocide forbidden and punished for by international law.
	www.shrc.org.uk /data/aspx/d1/1121.aspx (631 words)

	The Hama Massacre - Reform Party of Syria
		Journalist Robert Fisk, who was in Hama shortly after the massacre, estimated at the time that 10,000 citizens were killed and later described the death count as as many as 20,000; (Pity the Nation, pages 186; [1]), but according to Thomas Friedman (From Beirut to Jerusalem, pages 76-105) Rifaat later boasted of killing 38,000 people.
		After the Hama uprising, the Islamist insurrection was broken, and the Brotherhood since operates in exile.
		Government repression in Syria hardened considerably, as al-Assad had spent in Hama any goodwill he previously had left with the Sunni majority, and now was compelled to rely on pure force to stay in power.
	www.reformsyria.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=84&Itemid=71 (960 words)

	SHRC.org \| Sednaya Prison; A Human Tragedy\| 2003 Reports
		Amir Nasr Kojan of Hama has been detained as hostage in exchange for his brothers whom were imprisoned and subsequently killed in Palmyra prison.
		Mohammed Mohammed Hatem Al-Tabshi (from Hama) was arrested instead of his father during a normal visit to Syria a few years ago, and has since been in prison for no apparent reason and without committing any wrong-doing, apart from the fact that his father is an opposition figure to the Syrian regime.
		Abdul Rahman Musaddar (Hama) suffers from heart disease and high blood pressure and yet does not receive any medical attention or care despite his entire family being killed whilst in their homes during the Hama massacre in 1982.
	www.shrc.org /data/aspx/d9/1259.aspx (1664 words)

	Syria Terrorism On Syrian Citizens, Syria.com
		Under their regime's rule, one need only to look at the Hama massacre of 1982 to realize the sheer amount of suffering that the innocent people of Syria have had to endure.
		Hafez Assad decided that Hama would be the staging point of the example he was to make to the Syrian people.
		In the twilight hours of February the 2nd, 1982, the city of Hama was awakened by loud explosions.
	www.2la.org /lebanon/ee/terrorsy.htm (1184 words)

	Chapomatic » Al-Qaeda Syria Ops Summary
		In the late seventies and early ’80’s the Middle East was dealing with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood by typical tyrannical means–Qutb tortured and imprisoned, Hadeed tortured and later assassinated, repression in Egypt and Syria, et cetera.
		Hama had an uprising in 1982, and the Syrian government did as the Russians did in Chechnya a decade back–go in with guns and block all information coming out of the region while the operation was in progress.
		Elder Assad killed every man, woman and child in Hama because he was repressing Islamist activity in the form of Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, and the local group Attalieaa–and that atrocity was decades ago.
	gmapalumni.org /chapomatic/?p=1558 (1008 words)

	LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
		Rosenthal is referring to) and the massacre of many of its residents came about for one primary reason.
		President Hafez Assad, a member of the ruling Alawite tribe, saw a Sunni group in Hama, the Muslim Brotherhood, as an annoying thorn in his side.
		The Hama massacre was partly about tribal and religious differences.
	www.iht.com /articles/1993/02/25/edle_80.php (192 words)

	The Malach Ha-Mavis Moment
		One centre of opposition was the city of Hama.
		Hafez Assad decided that Hama would be the staging point of the example he was to make to the Syrian people.
		The lessons of the Hama Massacre were not lost on the Syrian population and an already deep dissatisfaction with the Alawi grew deeper.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/busch072406.htm (2204 words)

	Belgium
		This was not the first massacre in Lebanon and probably not the last.
		Start with Saddam Husayn murdering and gassing Iraqi Kurds, to the perpetrators of the massacre of Hama by Syria in 1982, to the massacres of Black September in Jordan.
		Taking issue with one massacre that took place in Lebanon at the expense of another is a dishonest action and is a dangerous political stand for Belgium, with dangerous consequences and repercussions that might precipitate unpredictable, negative reactions.
	www.free-lebanon.com /LFPNews/Belgium/belgium.html (782 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Yes, a massacre took place in 1982, and it is a matter of public record who were the instigators and perpetrators.
		The History of the Middle East is filled with massacres, and either you bring all those cases to justice or you bring none.
		Start with Saddam Hussein murdering and gassing Iraqi Kurds, to the Syrian perpetrators of the massacre of Hama in 1982, to the massacres of Black September in Jordan.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=2005 (798 words)

	Harun Yahya - The Winter Of Islam And The Spring To Come - Syria
		The Hama people, known for their strong attachment to Islam, were savagely slaughtered in a massacre that lasted 27 days, led by Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad's brother Rifat.
		The worst example of the savagery of the Assad regime was the massacre carried out in the city of Hama.
		One-third of the city of Hama with a population of 350,000 was destroyed.
	www.harunyahya.com /spring18.php (1562 words)

	The Middle East: Death of a Tyrant - Assad and the world he left National Review - Find Articles
		Hama is a city of 200,000 inhabitants, and in 1982 the Sunnis rose against the Alawi establishment there.
		In almost all countries without democracy, there are irreconcilable disputes between majorities and minorities, and it may be argued that Assad had little or no choice if he was to survive.
		Leaving aside the inhumanity, the violence of the Hama massacre calls for revenge, in a society where revenge is a matter of honor.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_12_52/ai_62828443 (968 words)

	Hama Massacre - Definition, explanation
		The Hama Massacre beginning February 2, 1982 occurred when the government of Syria attacked the town of Hama and killed thousands of people.
		The town of Hama, like many smaller towns in the Sunni parts of Syria was a centre of activity of the Muslim Brotherhood an Islamist group opposed to the rule of Hafez al-Assad's Baath Party.
		The Muslim Brotherhood were inspired by the success of the Iranian Revolution and had been supplied with arms by the Turkish Grey Wolves.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/ha/hama_massacre.php (346 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		But as I glanced about the forking streets of Hama, where ten to twenty-five thousand souls had been snuffed by Hafez al Assad, the passion and aimlessness captured by CNN's cameras was nowhere in evidence.
		They were asking their legislative body, a pack of men whose votes had been predetermined for thirty years by the father, to recommend, strongly, the son Bishar.
		The Brotherhood may have started the fight with a ritual ambush, but before the affair in Hama was over, Assad had made a statement to everyone in Syria.
	www.corpse.org /issue_14/translation/verlenden.html (6004 words)

	Behind Syria's Stony Facade
		In the back streets of Hama, we happened across a parade of schoolchildren, marching through the streets and waving tiny flags as they chanted homage to Hafez al-Assad, who has been Syria's leader for nearly 30 years.
		The Syrian government's record is far from clean when it comes to terrorism, but even the State Department, perhaps its biggest critic, says the government has not been tied to an act of terrorism since 1986.
		These days, as for centuries, the sound of Hama is the creaking of water wheels -- some as large as 65 feet across -- being turned slowly by the river's flow.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/syrtour1.htm (3090 words)

	Lebanon and Syria
		The massacre of the Christian town of Damour (or Damur) by the Palestinians, 1976.
		The leader of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, Elie Hobeika, had had his fiancée raped and murdered by the Palestinians in the Damour massacre of Christians by Arafat's PLO and other Palestinians in 1976.
		From massacre in Madrid to carnage in Qamishli: Fact and Fiction by the Kurd, Kamal Mirawdeli, on Robert Fisk's inability to criticise Syria.
	markhumphrys.com /lebanon.html (7046 words)

	Between Hope and Fear
		Somewhere I was listening to an interview with a witness of the Kent State massacre in 1970.
		Many readers here might be familiar with the massacre in Hama, Syria, in 1982.
		After the Hama uprising, the Islamist insurrection was broken, and the Brotherhood has since operated in exile.
	betweenhopeandfear.blogspot.com (5155 words)

	Is Saddam in Syria? (Baghdad chartered entire Hotel at Syrian port near Assad family villa!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Not far away, the medieval waterwheels for which Hama is famous creaked heavily with the weight of water-logged wood on iron spindles.
		Hama is built on the ruins and alleged graves of some of the thousands of Syrians who lost their lives
		Hama had been a conservative bastion of Sunni Muslims renowned for rejecting outside control.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/883900/posts (3611 words)

	Arabian dissent: October 2006
		He greeted Hamas and Islamic jihad with hugs and kisses.
		The Hama Massacre: In 1982 following an assassination attempt on Syrian dictator Hafez Al Assad, the Syrian government raided the city of HAMA (where it was believed that it housed the largest opposition members to the Syrian Baathist regime).
		The massacres in Algeria: The armed Islamic group committed massive amounts of massacres all accross rural Algeria, killing as much as 100-300 innocent civilians in a matter of 1-2 hours per day.
	arabiandissent.blogspot.com /2006_10_01_arabiandissent_archive.html (2305 words)

	Forums - Yet another massacre to be added to Israel's resume
		It is very obvious that the Israeli government is trying to appease the blood thirsty ultra-right settler in the latest massacre.
		9/11- Massacre committed by Muslims in the U.S. Darfur- Massacre committed by Muslims in Sudan.
		Kenya, Tanzania embassies- Massacre committed by Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa.
	www.elitetrader.com /vb/showthread.php?threadid=47821 (425 words)

	Boston IMC: newswire/33472
		When Syria's Baath regime feels its back up against the wall, it always resorts to "Hama Rules." Hama Rules is a term I coined after the Syrian Army leveled - and I mean leveled - a portion of its own city, Hama, to put down a rebellion by Sunni Muslim fundamentalists there in 1982.
		It is a measure, though, of just how disgusted the Lebanese are with the Syrian occupation and Hama Rules that everyone - from senior Lebanese politicians, like the courageous Walid Jumblatt, to street protesters - is openly accusing Syria of Mr.
		They must unite all their communities and hit the Syrian regime with "Baghdad Rules," which were demonstrated 10 days ago by the Iraqi people.
	boston.indymedia.org /newswire/display/33472/index.php (813 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In regard to your alleged massacres of the ‘80s, do you mean the massacre of Christian Lebanese at the hands of Palestinians who used the Sabra and Shatilla terror… err, refugee camps as bases from which to hide in after killing them?
		At the time the events of the Hama massacre became known to the world, the United States government issued strong condemnations of Syrian President Hafez Assad, in a vaccuum of virtual silence from the rest of the planet, notably excluding Canada, Great Britain, and Israel.
		The point was that in response to the massacres in the Sudan, the US has responded quite visibly to the continuing humanitarian crisis.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/36-10549.asp (4244 words)

	SEMP - How Hafiz Asad Tamed the Muslim Brothers
		Among major public buildings put up after the rising were a 230-bed hospital, a cultural center, a girls’ sports institute and teacher training college, a central market of oriental design, headquarter buildings for the Peasants’ Union and federations of teachers and engineers, and a sports center of outrageously ambitious proportions complete with Olympic-sized swimming pool.
		Among the revolutionary changes was the introduction of mixed bathing in 1983 and the first college dormitory block in the whole of Syria to house both male and female students.
		The Aftermath of Hama II The Hama battle was successful in its goals and the rebellious activities of the Muslim Brothers in Syria ceased after this point.
	www.semp.us /biots/biot_233.html (2006 words)

	"The Front Line: Commentary and Analysis on Israel, The Middle East and The War On Terror
		Haniyeh, the pragmatic face of Hamas, talks of peace in English, while Mashal and other Hamas leaders, in Arabic, talk of humiliating Israel before it dies and liberating Jerusalem, Jaffo, Haifa and all of Palestine.
		The city of Hama had been more persistent with it’s criticisms of Assad and the Muslim Brotherhood had a relatively strong foothold there, according to Syrian government sources at the time, 200 armed men.
		Since Abbas and the Hamas government had declared they were willing to set the murderers free Israel had no choice but to act and arrest the murderers of an Israeli minister.
	thefrontline.blogsome.com (1497 words)

	Dean's World - Handicapping the Hezbollah War, continued (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is generally known as the Hama Massacre.
		The point is, it is events like the Hama Massacre that make the Syrian government “evil”, but this is probably the level of violence that needs to be applied to suppress Islamic insurgents by force in this region.
		Many of the surviving fundamentalists from the Syrian Hama uprising fled to Europe, and are today part of the Islamic Fundamentalists movement in Europe that is fueling terrorism.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1154361369.shtml (2782 words)

	Arabian dissent
		The Hama Massacre: In 1982 following an assassination attempt on Syrian dictator Hafez Al Assad, the Syrian government raided the city of HAMA (where it was believed that it housed the largest opposition members to the Syrian Baathist regime).
		The most terrifying massacres occurred in public squares and in graveyards, even hospitals and schools were not spared, all available buildings were converted to a detention center during the massacre period.
		It is safe to assert that the massacre of Hama was a collection of separate massacres, which targeted about one fifth of the city’s inhabitants.
	arabiandissent.blogspot.com (6232 words)

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