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Ursprungligen postat av kilodil
1982 jämnade regeringen staden Hamas med marken eftersom muslimska brödraskapet hade ett starkt fäste där, en slakt på tiotusentals människor.
Detta tystades ner och ingen vågade prata öppet om detta förrän i mars förra året.
Här kommer det nu säker att utkrävas hämnd och det blir nog svårt för FN att hindra detta.
Det bästa hade kanske varit att dela upp landet i tre-fyra delar så att de får var sitt område
Risken är uppenbar att det etniskt-religiöst splittrade Syrien den dagen regimen faller får genomlida långt större blodbad, framför allt riktade mot den alawitiska minoritet som förknippas med far och son al-Assads 42 år som diktatorer.
Staden heter Hama och antalet offer varierar från tusen och uppåt, har sett siffror på över fyrtio tusen(!), och dessa terrorister fick efter 6 års tyranniska våldsmetoder smaka på sin egen medicin, våld, det enda språk de verkar förstå. Samma svin då som nu. Inte heller var det en hemlighet då både
Time och
NYT skrev om det:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921108,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/12/world/syrian-troops-are-said-to-battle-rebels-encircled-in-central-city.html
Wiki refererar till källorna ovan:
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Initial diplomatic reports from western countries stated that 1,000 were killed.[2][3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
Robert Fisk för två år sedan:
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* Hama was the setting for the most ferocious uprising ever staged against Hafez al-Assad's regime.
* The killings followed years of antagonism between the conservative Muslim Brotherhood and the nationalist regime of President Assad.
* The Muslim Brotherhood had tried to unseat the regime through targeted political killings and urban warfare, including an attempt to kill the President.
* During a search of Hama to try to root out dissident forces, Syrian troops came across the hideout of a local commander and were ambushed. As troop reinforcements were rushed to the city, the mosques called for a holy war against Assad's regime on 3 February 1982. The Muslim Brotherhood led the rebellion with guns, knives and grenades.
* The leadership's response was harsh. "Death a thousand times to the hired Muslim Brothers," Assad shouted in fury. "Death a thousand times to the Muslim Brothers, the criminal Brothers, the corrupt Brothers."
* The Syrian army, led by Assad's brother Rifaat, destroyed half of the city with tank shellfire and killed up to 20,000 people.
* Rifaat was seen as the natural successor to his brother, who ruled for three decades, but was accused of preparing to take over the country with his special forces. He was driven out of Damascus.
Här en artikel med ett par bra kommentarer från en viss
AceOfBase som bl.a. citerar Wiki om det syriska muslimska brödraskräpet:
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In 1970, General Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite, seized power; in 1973 violent demonstrations broke out again in response to a proposed constitution that did not require the president to be a Muslim. Syria's intervention in the Lebanese civil war in 1976 on the side of the Maronites (and hence technically on the side of Israel) sparked renewed agitation in Syria, and assassinations began to target members of the Syrian regime and prominent Alawites; the Muslim Brotherhood later claimed responsibility for most of these. (Carré 1983, 131-135, 156; ICG 11 February 2004, 3-4)
On 16 June 1979, the Muslim Brotherhood carried out an attack on an artillery school in Aleppo, killing 83 Alawite cadets. The government responded by sentencing about 15 prisoners, who had already been accused of being Iraqi agents, to death for belonging to the Islamic resistance movement. Terrorist attacks then became a daily occurrence, particularly in Aleppo and other northern cities.
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In June 1980, the Brotherhood tried and failed to assassinate president Assad. The military retaliated by massacring between 500 and 1,100 prisoners, mostly Muslim Brothers or others allied with them, in the prison of Palmyra. The Syrian public did not find out about this until January 1981, when some of the soldiers who had carried out the massacre were arrested in Jordan for attempting to assassinate the Jordanian prime minister, Mudar Badran, who the Syrian government accused of supporting the Brotherhood, and an interrogation of the soldiers was broadcast on Jordanian television. (Carré 1983, 146-148)
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In August, September and November 1981, the Brotherhood carried out three car-bomb attacks against government and military targets in Damascus, killing hundreds of people, according to the official press. On 2 February 1982, the Brotherhood led a major insurrection in Hama, rapidly taking control of the city; the military responded by bombing Hama (whose population was about 250,000) throughout the rest of the month, killing between 10,000 and 30,000 people. The tragedy of Hama marked the defeat of the Brotherhood, and the militant Islamic movement in general, as a political force in Syria. (Carré 1983, 159; ICG 11 February 2004, 4)
