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1964 Hama riot

April 1964 · Syria

Part of: Arab Cold War

Wikidata classes on our event-class list: riot, protest (all its classes: Wikidata item)

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The 1964 Hama riot was a major riot and insurrection that took place in Hama, a city in northern Syria, between the newly installed Ba'athist government of Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood in April 1964. It occurred following the 1963 Ba'athist coup d'état, that placed the Ba'ath Party in power.

The insurrection was brutally suppressed with heavy military force, resulting in many mortal casualties and partial destruction of the old Hama city neighborhoods. However, despite the government successfully crushing the insurrection, Hama continued to be a center of Islamists and a focal point of the Islamist uprising in Syria (1979–1982).

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