Timeline Sunday 28 February 1982

Events on Sunday 28 February 1982 1

• 1982 Hama massacre Syrian army crushes Muslim Brotherhood uprising The Syrian government under Hafez al-Assad besieged the city of Hama to crush an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, killing an estimated tens of thousands of people and largely destroying the old city. It remains one of the deadliest acts by an Arab government against its own citizens in modern history.