While in July it may be the same time in Phoenix as it is in Los Angeles, Arizona remains in the Mountain time zone, observing Mountain Standard Time year-round. Arizona is never on Pacific time. Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone, and (except the Navajo Nation in the northeast corner of the state) does not observe Daylight Saving Time, and therefore does not spring forward in April nor fall back in October.
1982 Hama massacre. The Hama massacre (Arabic language: ÙØ¬Ø²Ø±Ø© Ø­ÙØ§Ø©â) occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country's then-president, Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad's government.
60,000 to 98,000 Armenian civilians were estimated to have been killed by the Turkish army. Some estimates put the total number of Armenians massacred in the hundreds of thousands. Dadrian characterized the massacres in the Caucasus as a miniature genocide.n 1973, Turkey recalled its ambassador to France to protest the Genocide monument erected in Marseilles to the memory of the 1.5 million Armenian victims of the genocide ordered by the Turkish rulers in 1915.