After fall of Assad, Hama massacre survivors break decades of silence

After fall of Assad, Hama massacre survivors break decades of silence

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Forty-three years ago, Syria’s former Baath regime carried out one of the country’s deadliest atrocities — the 1982 Hama Massacre — killing tens of thousands and leaving thousands more missing. The Alawite-led Baath regime, which seized power in a 1963 coup and was overthrown in December 2024, launched its bloodiest pre-2011 crackdown in Hama, a city known […]

In 1982, Hafez Asad, the father of the overthrown Syrian dictator, crushed a rebellion in that city without knowing the number of victims or where their bodies are. The regime built buildings, roads and hotels on mass graves.

After fall of Assad regime, Hama Massacre survivors break decades of silence

After 61 years of Baath rule ended in December 2024, survivors of the 1982 Hama Massacre are speaking out for the first time about one of Syria’s deadliest atrocities - Anadolu Ajansı