Syria Feature: Hama, the City That Refused to Die
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 15:02
A building in Hama, pictured on Aug. 10, 2011. It was damaged in a 10-day military assault on the city - / AFP / Getty Images
Hama's streets are deserted. They are strewn with debris, not so much from the shelling that left gaping holes in many of the four- and five-story residential buildings along the city's main thoroughfares, several of which are now blackened, but from the desperate, makeshift barricades set up by residents in a bid to block Syrian President Bashar Assad's tanks. There are piles of broken cinderblocks, doors torn from their hinges, sheets of decorative wrought iron. At Roundabout 40, along a main road, there are even two fire trucks, now burned. "It didn't stop them," says a resident as he surveys the damage. "It didn't even slow them down."
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