Friday July 9, 2011

I've Been Thinking:

On Friday, in the city of Hama in Syria, 450,000 people came out in protest against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

The protests were not limited to Hama, there were protests throughout the rest of Syria. But for Syrians and for students of the Middle East, Hama is a symbol. Hama has history.

Hama was a city under siege. Bashar Assad was clamping down on the city. Then ambassadors from the United States and France came in a show of support and gave encouragement to the local residents. The ambassadors told the people of Hama that the world cares and that the world is watching.

In 1982, in this same town of Hama, this dictator's father - Hafez Assad massacred 30,000 people in a single day. The massacre was so brutal that the next day Assad had special forces sent in to kill even the domestic and farm animals of Hama.

All of Syria remembers the horrific massacre in Hama. Now they wonder if there will be another.

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