Hama
Hama (in Arab rear حماه, which means “Fortress”) is a city being in Syria, known in Antiquity under the name of Epiphania . It was the theater of violent one confrontations between the Muslim brothers, the nationalist Arabic of the Iraqi Baath , the Syrian left and the Syrienne army of Hafez el-Assad in February 1982.
Revolt of 1982
In 1980, a Muslim brother tries to assassinate the Syrian president Hafez el-Assad. Several Imams are then stopped by the clan alaouite. The February 2nd 1982, under the control of 150 officers sunnites, the town of Hama revolts. Assad reacts violently by giving the order to besiege the city and to bombard it with the heavy Artillerie.
A third of the city - cash of many architectural jewels - will be destroyed and between 10 and 25.000 civilians offciellement will offciellement be killed (certain inhabitants speak, with covered words, of a hundred) during the 27 days of seat.
The city today is a pleasant city, stage between Damas and Alep, dominated by the very large Noria S over the river Oronte. In spite of the repression of 1982, Hama remains a very religious city, so much by the number of mosques (unceasingly expanding) that by local manners.
Internal bonds
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