![]() Like the father from whom he inherited power, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent tanks to shell Hama. Bodies that lay for days uncollected and rotting in the intense August sun have all disappeared.įreed from the iron grip of the security forces, Hama’s people had made history for a month, coming together for the largest ever mass protests against the Assad family’s 41-year dictatorship.įor the past fortnight, an older story has revisited itself on the mainly Sunni conservative population of Syria’s fourth largest city. BEIRUT, Lebanon and HAMA, Syria - In the city that defied the dictator, fire engines are washing the bloodstains off the street. ![]()
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