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Justin Salhani - Bassam Hlyhl

Hama: A rebellious Syrian town that can finally mourn the Assad massacre

A child in Hama's city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens of thousands of Syrians in the 1982 massacre, on January 28, 2025 [Bekir Kasim/Anadolu via Getty Images]

Hama, Syria – For more than 40 years, people in Hama spoke in whispers about the February 1982 massacre that then-President Hafez al-Assad unleashed on this city.

Speaking about it could lead a Syrian to join the hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in al-Assad’s prisons.

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