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The Syrian city of Hama was the scene of a massacre in 1982 when President Hafez al-Assad, father of the current president Bashar al-Assad, razed the city to crush a Sunni rebellion, slaughtering an estimated 20,000 of his own people.. Assad's troops pounded Hama with artillery fire for several days and, with the city in ruins, his bulldozers …