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2011–2012 Hama clashes
Part of the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising
Date1 September 2011 - ongoing
Location
Hama
Result

ongoing

  • FSA reportedly take control of some Hama neighbourhoods
Belligerents

Syrian National Council

Syria Syrian government Syrian Armed Forces

Casualties and losses
104 killed[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

The Hama Clashes are a series of incidents of heavy fighting in the Syrian city of Hama and it's province in a response to a government crackdown on opposition protesters in the city.


2011

September

The Attorney General of the Hama Governate announced his resignation on 1 September in response to the government crackdown on protests. The government claimed he had been kidnapped and forced to lie at gunpoint.[21]

November

On 14 November, SANA, state controlled media, reported that 13 soldiers were killed in Hama.[22] By 17 November, the protests seemed to have calmed down, and the city was under government control. The streets were still littered with burnt out vehicles and police checkpoints were dotted around the city, despite the return to relative clam[23] However, the same day, security forces carried out raids on homes looking for military defectors and made arrests.[24]

December

On 9 December, Hama saw the largest anti government protests in the city since August.[25]

At least six members of the security forces were reported killed in Hama on 11 December in clashes with the opposition. Syrian authorities claimed to have arrested a suspected terrorist who was trying to plant a bomb near a residential building.[26] There were also reports that several civilians had been shot, although it was not specified whether they were wounded or killed.[27]

Loyalist soldiers reportedly fired upon a civilian car on 14 December, killing five people, in response, the Free Syrian Army staged an ambush against a loyalist convoy consisting of four jeeps, killing eight soldiers.[28]

Pro Assad forces stormed the city on 14 December in an effort to put down the protests, resulting in at least ten civilian fatalities. Clashes broke out when the Free Syrian Army attempted to halt the incursion, and at least two armoured vehicles were disabled by the rebels during a battle at Hadid Bridge.[29] Activists said that tanks opened fire with machineguns and troops burnt shops that adhered to the oppositions strike.[30]

Soldiers shot six protests to death, on 29 December, as Arab League monitors arrived in the city.[31]

2012

January

Nine protesters in Hama were killed by security forces gunfire on 7 January 2012.[32]

On 7 January 2012, Colonel Afeef Mahmoud Suleima of the Syrian Air Force logistics division defected from Bashar Al Assads regime along with at least fifty of his men, and announced his defection on live television and ordered his men to protect protesters in the city of Hama.

"We are from the army and we have defected because the government is killing civilian protesters. The Syrian army attacked Hama with heavy weapons, air raids and heavy fire from tanks...We ask the Arab League observers to come visit areas affected by air raids and attacks so you can see the damage with your own eyes, and we ask you to send someone to uncover the three cemeteries in Hama filled with more than 460 corpses." Colonel Suleima said in a statement.[33]

On 25 January, Syrian army troops raided opposition controlled districts Bab Qebli, Hamidiyeh and Malaab killing at least 7 people, reportedly using artillery and sniper fire in the process.[34]

At least 17 bodies were found with bullet wounds to the head on 28 January, which activists claim had been caused by Pro government forces when they launched an armoured raid into the city. At least one of those executed was a police deserter.[35]

By late January 2012 activists said that four neighbourhoods in Hama were under opposition control.[36]

February

According to Reuters, five government troops were killed "in clashes with rebel fighters in Qalaat al-Madyaq town in restive Hama area".[37]

According to activists, 10 FSA fighters were killed by the Syrian army in Kfar Nabuda in the Hama province.[38]

According to Syrian state TV, gunmen clashed with soldiers, causing the death of an officer and a sergeant and the injury of a corporal.[39]

On 28 February 2012, government forces shelled a town in Hama Province, Helfaya, killing 20 civilian villagers. Activists said the 20 deaths of Sunni Muslim villagers there were among at least 100 killed in the province in the last two weeks in government revenge attacks agasint innocent civilians.[40]

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  15. ^ http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2012/02/24/402185.htm
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  25. ^ http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=104954
  26. ^ [1]
  27. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-11/yemen-forms-government-as-egypt-s-military-retreats-politically.html
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  31. ^ Violence and doubts mar Syria monitor mission
  32. ^ Syria unrest: Damascus blast and clashes kill many
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  34. ^ Syria Troops Storm Central City Of Hama
  35. ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/28/us-syria-killings-hama-idUSTRE80R0B020120128
  36. ^ AJE live blog
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  40. ^ Syria Violence: Wounded Journalists Escape, Military Pounds Opposition Areas
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