30.01.2012                      06.Schwat. 5772

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This Week in History: Assad flattens Hama

In 1982, then-Syrian president Hafez Assad ordered the massacre of tens of thousands of Sunni rebels.

In the early hours of February 3, 1982, a call to launch an uprising went out among Sunni rebels as thousands of government troops descended on the western Syrian city of Hama. The military offensive, ordered by then-Syrian president Hafez Assad, came after at least a decade of guerrilla and terror attacks against the regime, and two years after a nearly successful assassination attempt against the president. Tens of thousands of Syrians would be killed by the end of the month….