At the Hama military airport, rebels from the Free Syrian Army traded Grad missiles for Syrian army mortars Sunday, the Hama Revolutionist Command Council said in a statement.
"The regime is committing all sorts of violations to Annan's plan and ... it has not abided by any of the plan's points, " the national council said in a statement denouncing the Hama incident.
In the town of Hama, the group said, regime forces launched raids and destroyed homes, shops and the town's only hospital.
But in 1982, when Syria's own Muslim Brotherhood rebelled in the Syrian city of Hama, the regime responded by shelling the city indiscriminately for three weeks, killing about 20, 000 or 30, 000 civilians.
More horror stories came out as the months passed by: soccer stadiums packed with detainees in Banyas, hundreds killed in the military assault of Hama during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, thousands fleeing shelling in the border of town of Jisr al-Shughur in hopes of reaching refugee camps in Turkey.
Unlike his father (who had some 20, 000 people, mostly civilians, slaughtered in the city of Hama in 1982), the younger Mr Assad has not been a mass-murderer, even if he orders the occasional assassination.
In the meantime, the agony of Homs and Hama, the popular upheaval against a monstrous tyranny, is left untended.
The reported violence in the southern city of Hama occurred two days after a visit to the city by U.N. observers.
Al-Assad's government, as it has done consistently, blamed terrorist groups for the deaths in Hama.
Activists say that a military rocket attack Wednesday killed more than 70 people in the city of Hama.
The killing in Hama on Friday June 3rd was also a watershed.
The city of Hama site of a massacre of protesters ordered by Mr Assad's father in 1982 slipped briefly out of official control in May.
Reports from central Syria on Wednesday said a large number of civilians from the Alawite sect had been killed in a village to the west of Hama.
The art inquiry was sent October 28, the same day Syrian protesters staged a massive demonstration in the city of Hama, in which they called for an end to al-Assad's rule.
Their account said more than 34 government soldiers and police died on Sunday alone - an apparent setback for government forces a day after the army announced it had regained control of villages on a major route linking the central city of Hama to Aleppo, with security "restored" to the northern city's airport.
Basilios Nassar, a Greek Orthodox priest from the central city of Hama, was shot and killed by government snipers in January while he was helping evacuate the wounded in clashes in one neighborhood, Christian activists say.
The embattled western provinces of Homs and Hama have seen some of the worst fighting between government forces and rebels.
On the same day as a massive anti-Assad rally in Hama, Syria, the first lady e-mailed a London art dealer about buying tens of thousands of dollars' worth of art.
In 1982, Hafez Assad brutally ended an uprising in the Syrian city of Hama.
In addition, security forces fatally shot four people in Deir Ezzor, Hama and the Damascus suburbs.
Shelling has also continued unabated around the major cities of Hama and Homs, north of Damascus.
It said the army, backed by warplanes, struck at rebel targets in the northern city of Hama.
The rockets were apparently launched from the vicinity of nearby Hama airport, which is under government control.
Meanwhile, U.N. observers in Hama found the atmosphere tense, the United Nations said.
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One hotel stands in Hama on the site of homes demolished by the government, when it crushed a rebellion in 1982.
In Hama, the LCC reported fierce clashes between government forces and the rebel Free Syrian Army, comprised mainly of defected soldiers.
The regime is focusing its overtaxed military and security forces on defending Damascus, not losing the northern city of Aleppo and preserving reclaimed territory in the central provinces of Hama and Homs.
Manhal Abo Baker, part of the Shaam News activist network in Hama, said his organization had filmed a series of campaigns in the besieged city.
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