Why the rebel capture of Syria's Hama, a city with a dark history, matters

One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian President Hafez Assad launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre

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Why the rebel capture of Syria's Hama, a city with a dark history, matters

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