HAMA –
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad Sunday on the occasion of the Eid al-Fitr, the feast of the end of the month of fasting, far from the capital, in a mosque in the city of Hama prayers. Syrian state media showed the president with ministers, members of parliament and citizens in the al-Nouri mosque in Hama, more than 180 kilometers and is north of Damascus.
Assad is, according to observers for many years so far from Damascus. It could be a sign that he has more confidence as a winner from the civil war to come. According to the pastor in the service, sheikh Nahjem Eddin al-Ali, it won’t take that long anymore. “The Syrians are a few steps away from victory and the return of security and peace in the country”, said sheikh al-Ali.
Protest
Since the clan of the family Assad, in 1970, came to power is Hama severely affected. In the early eighties beat-Regime father Hafez, there bloody an uprising of sunnis down. That would be 10,000 to 25,000 lives have been. At the beginning of the current civil war in 2011, it was Hama, a center of protest against Bashar al-Assad that bloody is suppressed.