Who Knows What The 1982 Hama Massacre Was?

[KittyWampus]

Just curious.

[Tx4obama]

1. Links below - to all three of them

1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Massacre

1981: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Hama_massacre

2012/June: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Hama_massacre

[NYC_SKP]

2. Possibly refers to the 2012 Hama Massacre, rather than the 1982 event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Hama_massacre

[KittyWampus]

3. Was referring to 1982. Thanks for reminding me.

[eissa]

4. After Islamic extremists

started terrorizing the country by blowing up markets, assasinating doctors and professors, and commiting other atrocities, Hafez Assad responded. The military invaded Hama (stronghold of the extremists) and wiped out nearly the entire town (about 10,000 people.)

[David__77]

6. You beat me.

You certainly know better than I.

[eissa]

7. You know quite a bit! nt

[KittyWampus]

12. Closer to 20,000 but of course you leave out the person who did it and go for a lower number.

[eissa]

13. LMAO at your little dig!

Aaawww, do you want it to be 20,000? Tell you what, let's just take the MB's word for it and make it 40,000. Btw, I do mention who did it, so not sure what you're talking about. We seem to think terrorism began on 9/11, when many countries have been dealing with these elements since their inception. Fact is, much to the relief of the rest of the country, those bombings stopped after Hama and didn't resume until the "Arab Spring."

Do you remember Falluja? The epicenter of the insurgents in Iraq where 4 defense contractors were killed and mutilated? We leveled the place and took out thousands in the process.

You can retroactively condemn Hama all you want; our government at the time didn't. Although I'm sure it'll be an issue now, the same way that Saddam using WMDs was ok when he used them against Iran, but something we had to go to war over a decade later.

[David__77]

5. It came after a murderous rampage by Islamic terrorists.

Many Alawites had been annihilated in the years preceding Hama. It was like a pogrom. The Muslim Brotherhood was absolutely livid that an Alawite was leading the country.

[Scootaloo]

8. Of course

[freshwest]

9. Yes. Between 10 to 40K killed in 27 days by Assad's father.

According to Syrian media, anti-government rebels initiated the fighting, who "pounced on our comrades while sleeping in their homes and killed whomever they could kill of women and children, mutilating the bodies of the martyrs in the streets, driven, like mad dogs, by their black hatred." Security forces then "rose to confront these crimes" and "taught the murderers a lesson that has snuffed out their breath".[10]

Rough stuff there. Shame that most of the victims were said to be civilians, but apparently the Syrian government did not start the fighting. Per Wikipedia. That was the one in 1982.

It followed an execution style massacre in Hamas in 1981 in which hundreds of males chosen randomly over the age of 14 to be slain.

There was yet another in Hamas in 2012 in which dozens or a hundred were driven out by shelling then shot and stabbed to death.

It appears these came out the Muslim Brotherhood who wanted to establish and Islamic state. There is nothing laudable on any side there. And it's very complicated.

[Raksha]

10. I read about it last night in Wikipedia...

I've been giving myself kind of a crash course in Syrian history and politics this week.

[jazzimov]

11. 1982, wasn't Reagun President? nt