(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a provocative move by the Syrian regime accompanied with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Hama massacre, a huge statue for Hafez al-Assad to be inaugurated this week at the entrance of once war-torn city.
The statute was removed at the early days of the Syrian conflict that has escalated from street protests in 2011 against Bashar al-Assad to a proxy war that has transformed the region and the world.
Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria between 1971-2000, wrote the darkest pages in the Syrian history in February 1982 when about 40,000 people brutally killed in the central city of Hama.
The bloody repression by the Assad army was not against the armed uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, But was against hundreds of thousands of civilians who had been killed and displaced.
Local activists condemned the move, saying it's a blatant message by Assad and his allied militants to Hama residents that a fate similar to whom killed in 1982 is awaiting them if ever decide to uprise again.
In mid 2011, Hama was among the first Syrian cities to uprise against Bashar al-Assad's crackdown where thousands of people went to streets and most ever-lasting slogans were chanted by the revolutions Icon Ibarhim Qashoush ,Yalla Irhal Ya Bashar' or "Come on, Bashar, leave". Such a chant cost him a throat cut.
The statute was removed at the early days of the Syrian conflict that has escalated from street protests in 2011 against Bashar al-Assad to a proxy war that has transformed the region and the world.
Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria between 1971-2000, wrote the darkest pages in the Syrian history in February 1982 when about 40,000 people brutally killed in the central city of Hama.
The bloody repression by the Assad army was not against the armed uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, But was against hundreds of thousands of civilians who had been killed and displaced.
Local activists condemned the move, saying it's a blatant message by Assad and his allied militants to Hama residents that a fate similar to whom killed in 1982 is awaiting them if ever decide to uprise again.
In mid 2011, Hama was among the first Syrian cities to uprise against Bashar al-Assad's crackdown where thousands of people went to streets and most ever-lasting slogans were chanted by the revolutions Icon Ibarhim Qashoush ,Yalla Irhal Ya Bashar' or "Come on, Bashar, leave". Such a chant cost him a throat cut.
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