When the mass movements became influential , however , they were answered not by reform but by persecution , ranging from the violent crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1950 's to the massacre of more than 10,000 dissidents by the dictator Hafez al-Assad in Hama , Syria , in 1982 .
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