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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Syrian war crime}}<br />
{{Infobox civilian attack<br />
|title=Jisr al-Shughour massacre of 1980<br />
|image=<br />
|partof=[[Islamist uprising in Syria]]<br />
|caption=<br />
|location= {{flagicon|Syria|1972}} [[Jisr al-Shughour]], [[Syria]]<br />
|target= Insurgents<br />
|date=March 9, 1980<br />
|time=<br />
|timezone=<br />
|type=Mortar and rocket fire, [[execution]]<br />
|fatalities=150-200<ref name=Seale/><ref name=humanrights/><br />
|injuries=<br />
|perps=[[Syrian Army]] Special Forces<br />
}}<br />
{{Campaignbox Islamist uprising in Syria}}<br />
The '''Jisr al-Shughour massacre of 1980''' occurred in [[Syria]] on 9 March 1980, when helicopter borne Syrian troops were sent into [[Jisr ash-Shugur]], a town between [[Aleppo]] and [[Latakia]], to quell demonstrators, who had recently ransacked barracks and party offices in town. A ferocious search and destroy mission ensued that left some two hundred dead, while scores of prisoners were ordered executed in field tribunals.<ref name=Seale>{{cite book|last=Seale|first=Patrick|title=Asad of Syria : the struggle for the Middle East|year=1990|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=0-520-06976-5|pages=327|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6D9EiJKRTHcC&dq=jisr&pg=PA3}}</ref> <br />
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==History==<br />
Against a background of [[Islamist uprising in Syria|an Islamist uprising]] across Syria, inhabitants of Jisr ash-Shugur marched on the local [[Ba'ath Party]] headquarters and set it on fire. The police were unable to restore order and fled. Some demonstrators seized weapons and ammunition from a nearby army barracks. Later that day, units of the [[Syrian Army]] Special Forces were helicoptered in from Aleppo to regain control, which they did after pounding the town with rockets and mortars, destroying homes and shops and killing and wounding dozens of people. At least two hundred people were arrested. The following day a military tribunal ordered the execution of more than a hundred of the detainees. In all, about 150-200 people were said to have been killed.<ref name=humanrights>{{cite book|title=Human rights in Syria|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_N-xjxWYWnlwC|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_N-xjxWYWnlwC/page/n19 16]–17|publisher=Human Rights Watch|year=1990|isbn=0-929692-69-1}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of massacres in Syria]]<br />
*[[Siege of Jisr al-Shughur]]<br />
*[[Syrian Civil War]]<br />
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