Hama Massacre
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suppression of the Islamic Revolution and killing of thousands of civilians in Hama, Syria, 1982
Key facts
- Location
- Hama , Syria
- Date
- 2 February 1982 ( 1982-02-02 ) – 28 February 1982 ; 44 years ago ( 1982-02-28 )
- Attack type
- Sectarian violence
- Deaths
- 25,000–40,000 civilians killed , 15,000 –17,000 civilians forcibly disappeared
- Victims
- 100,000 civilians arbitrarily detained
- Perpetrators
- Syrian Armed Forces Syrian Army Military Intelligence Special Forces Syrian Air Force Air Force Intelligence Defense Companies Struggle Companies Ministry of Interior General Intelligence Syrian Police
- Defenders
- Muslim Brotherhood Fighting Vanguard
- Motive
- Anti-Sunni sentiment , Assadism , counterinsurgency
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- massacre
- Part of
- Islamist revolution in Syria
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Hama
- Location
- Hama
- Image
- 1982HamaMassacre.png
- Number of deaths
- 40000
- Participant
- Defense Companies
- Organizer
- Hafez al-Assad
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- start time
- 1982-02-02
- end time
- 1982-02-28
- Commons category
- 1982 Hama massacre
- point in time
- 1982-00-00
- ordered by
- Hafez al-Assad
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Hama massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حماة) occurred in February 1982 when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies paramilitary force, under the orders of President Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against the Ba'athist government. The campaign that had begun in 1976 by Sunni Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, was brutally crushed in an anti-Sunni massacre at Hama, carried out by the Syrian Arab Army and Alawite militias under the command of Major General Rifaat al-Assad.
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