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{{Infobox civilian attack
|title= Aleppo Artillery School massacre
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| label = Artillery School location
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|partof = [[Islamist uprising in Syria]]
|caption =
|location = [[Aleppo]], [[Syria]]
|target = [[Syrian Army]] [[cadet]]s
|date = 16 June 1979
|time =
|timezone =
|type = [[Execution]]
|weapons = Guns, [[grenade]]s
|fatalities = 50–83
|injuries =
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The '''Aleppo Artillery School massacre''' was a [[massacre]] of [[Syrian Army]] [[cadet]]s by members of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] on 16 June 1979. It was part of the 1976–1982 [[Islamist uprising in Syria]].

==Massacre==
The massacre occurred on 16 June 1979, in the [[Ramouseh]] district of the city of [[Aleppo]], Syria. An officer on duty, Ibrahim el-Youssef, and members of the [[Muslim Brotherhood of Syria|Syrian Muslim Brotherhood]] calling themselves the [[Fighting Vanguard]] (''at-Tali’a al-Muqatila'') and led by [[`Adnan `Uqla|ʿAdnan ʿUqla]], massacred between 50 and 83 [[Alawites|Alawi]] cadets in the Aleppo Artillery School.<ref>[http://countrystudies.us/syria/18.htm The Assad Era] Thomas Collelo, ed. Syria: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1987.</ref><ref>[http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/print.cfm?articleid=70 Syria's Islamist Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising] ORIGINS volume 5 issue 10 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622031757/http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/print.cfm?articleid=70 |date=June 22, 2012 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/830/from-hama-to-hamas-syrias-islamist-policies From Hama to Hamas: Syria's Islamist Policies] inFocus SPRING 2009 • VOLUME III: NUMBER 1, [[Jewish Policy Center]]</ref> The duty officer in charge of the school called Alawite cadets to an urgent morning meeting in the mess hall of the school; when they arrived, he and his accomplices [[mass shootings|opened fire]] on the unarmed cadets with [[automatic weapon]]s and [[grenade]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shrc.org/en/?p=19785|title = The Massacre of the Military Artillery School at Aleppo – Special Report}}</ref> The incident marked the beginning of full scale urban warfare of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood against the ruling Alawites.<ref name="books.google.co.il">{{cite book |url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=-2jCN5Ur6yUC |page=8 }} |title=The Hama Massacre: Reasons, Supporters of the Rebellion, Consequences |first=Kathrin Nina |last=Wiedl |publisher=GRIN Verlag |year=2006 |isbn=3-638-71034-3 |page=8 |access-date=2013-03-17 }}{{Self-published source|date=January 2015}}</ref>

==Reaction==
On 22 June, the Syrian interior minister, Adnan al-Dabbagh, accused the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] of the massacre. Although the principal targets were members of the Alawite sect, the Syrian Minister of Information, Ahmad Iskander Ahmad, stated that the murdered cadets also included [[Christianity in Syria|Christians]] and [[Sunni Muslim]]s. In a statement distributed on 24 June, the Muslim Brotherhood organization denied that it had any prior knowledge of the massacre nor involvement in it.<ref name=shrc>{{cite web|url=http://www.shrc.org/en/?p=19785 |title=The Massacre of the Military Artillery School at Aleppo - Special Report | 2002 Reports |publisher=SHRC.org |access-date=2013-03-17}}</ref> It also accused the [[Syrian government]], then led by the Alawite [[President of Syria|President]] [[Hafez al-Assad]], of trying to tarnish the image of the Muslim Brotherhood, speculatively because it was influential among the [[Syrians|Syrian public]].

The Syrian government responded by sentencing to death an estimated 15 prisoners belonging to the "Islamic resistance movement", all of whom were accused of being [[Iraq]]i agents. Following the massacre, [[terrorism in Syria|terrorist]] attacks became almost a daily occurrence, particularly in Aleppo and other northern cities. The government usually attributed these attacks to the Muslim Brotherhood, but as the armed resistance gained wider popular support and other, loosely defined, armed groups appeared, it became difficult to determine the extent of the Brotherhood's involvement.<ref>Carré , 135-7.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Siege of Aleppo (1980)]]

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