AMMAN, July 3. Sun, July 3, 2011 6 pm EDT
(AMMAN, July 3 Reuters) - Syrian tanks were deployed at the entrance of the city of Hama, activists and residents, said Sunday, two days after he saw the largest protest against President Bashar al-Assad since an uprising began three months ago.
Dozens of people are being arrested in the neighbourhoods on the edges of Hama. ". The authorities seem to have opted for a military solution to subdue the city, "Rami Abdel Rahman, President of the Syrian human rights observatory, stated to Reuters."
Hama, 210 km north of Damascus, was the scene of the bloodiest in the modern history of the Syria episode, when troops killed up to 30,000 people in an assault in 1982 to end an uprising led by Islamists against President Hafez Al-Assad Assad, the late father iron rule. (Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis; editing by David Stamp)
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