For more than 40 years, people in Hama spoke in whispers about the February 1982 massacre that then-President Hafez al-Assad unleashed on this city.
Speaking about it could lead a Syrian to join the hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in al-Assad’s prisons.
Now, Syria’s fourth-largest city can commemorate and mourn in public the massacre of tens of thousands of people because Hafez’s son Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in December after an uprising and subsequent war that lasted 13 years.
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