London, 7 Feb. (AKI) - Syrian opposition groups on Tuesday staged a demonstration in front of Damascus' embassy in London to commemorate the victims of a 1982 military attack which crushed an Islamist inspired revolt. The "Massacre of Hamah," was named after the city where government special forces crushed the uprising killing between 10,000 and 30,000 people.
The aim of Tuesday's protest was to "renew the pact of loyalty with those Syrian citizens who paid with their lives in confronting despotism and the repression of freedom," the groups said in a statement. | Trying to bring about their own version of despotism and repression |
The Muslim Brotherhood-led insurrection in Hamah was one of several during the 1970s and 1980s against the secular Baathist regime of then Syrian president, Hafiz al-Assad, father of the country's current leader, Basher al-Assad. | Daddy Assad was a real dictator who got things done. |
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