2nd-Feb-2019 Today marks the anniversary of the 1982 massacre of Hama, in which an estimated forty thousand people were killed according to the documentation of the Syrian Human Rights Committee. The massacre of Hama bore the signature of the two brothers Hafez and Rifat al-Assad, who chose it as a motto for their bloodthirsty history […]
Waleed Abadha: Death of a War Criminal with no Account
War Criminal and Brigadier-General, Waleed Abadha, who was head of the Political Security in Hama from 1978 till the early 1990s, died in Syria today. Waleed Abadha played a direct role in the Hama Massacre which took place in February 1982. He was also head of office for Ghazi Kanan in 2005- the year in […]
Hama 1982: A Turning Point and a Model being Replicated
On this same day in 1982, forces of the Syrian regime during the era of Hafiz al-Asad attacked the city of Hama, committing- within 27 days- one of the worst humanitarian terrors witnessed by Syria in the previous century, and in which approximately 30,000 people were killed according to estimations made by the Syrian Human […]
Rif’at al-Asad: War Criminal and Part of a Bloody System
Last month (August 2015), BBC Arabic aired an interview with Ribaal Rif’at al-Asad, who devoted the whole duration of the interview to negate his father’s responsibility to the crimes which took place in Syria during the eighties, as well as denying that his father and the Defence Brigades participated in the Hama massacre, and that […]
Hama Survivors Recount the Horror
In 2012, Amnesty International published the testimonials of the survivors of the Hama massacre, perpetrated by the Syrian Army in 2012. On the 33th anniversary of the massacre, SHRC re-publishes these testimonials as a reminder of what took place. *** The Syrian military assault on Homs is now in its fourth week with no sign […]
Thirty three years on the Hama Massacre: The Criminals Remain Outside the Realm of Justice
On the 2/2/1982, forces of the Syrian army began targeting the city of Hama, in an attack which lasted 27 days and included a continuous series of massacres on different districts of the city, leading to the killing of approximately 30,000 civilians according to SHRC’s calculations, among them around 10,000 whose fate has not yet […]
The Hama Massacre marks its Thirty-Second Anniversary
Today marks the thirty-second anniversary of the Hama Massacre, which began on 2/2/1982 and lasted for 27 days, and in which approximately 30,000 were killed in addition to 15,000 that disappeared and have not been found since. Approximately 100,000 residents left the city after a third of the districts were completely destroyed, and other districts […]