ISBN10: 3638710343, ISBN13: 9783638710343, [publisher: GRIN Verlag] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1, Ben Gurion University (Middle East Sciences), course: Israel and Arabs - between war and peace, language: English, abstract: In February 1982, the Syrian city of Hama became well-known worldwide as the place of the 'Hama massacre'. After a large and long-planned uprising of Muslim rebels against Asad and the Ba'th party, mainly organised by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, Syrian government forces crushed the rebellion with brutal force. An estimated number of 20.000 to 40.000 citizens were killed by Syrian army units under the control of General Ali Haydar, 15.000 missing persons have not been found until today. This incident evoked heavy condemnation of the so-called 'pro-Moscow military regime' of Asad in the German press. It was accused of 'beeing one of the bloodiest regimes in the Middle East, shaken from fear of espionage and with pro-soviet declarations and refusal of any peace policy overbidding itself every day anew.' (Ranke, P.M., 'Nur noch mit Gewalt', Die Welt, 12.2.1982). The Asad regime was portrayed in West German newspapers in exactly the same way as in the writings of the Muslim Brotherhood, as a sectarian minority regime, and little distinction was made between the goals of the B ...
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Grin Verlag 8/8/2007 Paperback or Softback New in New jacket The Hama Massacre-reasons, supporters of the rebellion, consequences (Paperback or Softback)

Norderstedt Grin Verlag 2007 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 52 p.