For more than four decades, the Assad family made sure that the horrors it committed here stayed unspeakable - killing tens of thousands of Hama residents over a savage month-long siege, then hunting those who carried the memory.
It was in Hama that Hafez al-Assad, the father of now-deposed president Bashar al-Assad, cemented the dynasty's brutal rule by crushing an uprising led by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Estimates for the number of people killed during the 1982 military offensive range from 10,000 to 40,000. Most were civilians.
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