Sami al-Hinnawi explained

Sami al-Hinnawi
سامي الحناوي
Birth Date:1898
Birth Place:Aleppo, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Syria
Death Place:Beirut, Lebanon
Rank: Colonel
Nationality:Syrian
Party:Syrian Social Nationalist Party

Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (Arabic: محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي|Muḥammad Sāmī Ḥilmī al-Ḥinnāwī; 1898 – 31 October 1950) was a Syrian politician and military officer.

Life

On December 19, 1949, Adib Shishakli carried out a coup d'état (the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 31, 1950, al-Hinnawi was assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of Muhsin al-Barazi, the Prime Minister who had been overthrown and killed in Hinnawi's coup.[1]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Moubayed, Sami M. . 2000 . Damascus Between Democracy and Dictatorship . University Press of America . 63 . 9780761817444.