Hama: a tipping point for Assad?

Mass anti-government protest in Hama

By James M. Dorsey

For the past three decades, Hama symbolized the Syrian regime's ability and willingness to brutally crush its opponents.

Almost 30 years later, Hama appears to be rising from the ashes of its subjugation to symbolize the possible beginning of an albeit slow, chaotic and bloody end of four decades of i…