The Hama massacre marked the end of the Muslim Brotherhood’s uprising, a movement which began in 1976. Thousands of people in the town of Hama were murdered after the Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad decided to put and end to hostilities once and for all.
On the Between the Covers podcast Molly Crabapple describes a conversation she had with Marwan Hisham, the co-author of a new book Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War. Hisham live-tweeted his experiences from Raqqa, Syria during the US's first air strikes, breaking the news thirty minutes before the the Pentagon's announcement of the action. When asked why he performed these courageous acts under great personal danger to himself he said he didn’t want a repeat of the 1982 massacre. To him, this event was a major milestone worthy of remembrance. Crabapple informs him that most people outside of Syria haven’t even heard of the event. It’s crazy to think that the reason behind Hisham’s journalistic efforts, to prevent atrocities of the past, is unknown to a large part of the world.
