Hammud al-Shufi
Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
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| In office March 1963 – 1 February 1964 | |
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| Political party | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Hammud al-Shufi (
Life
Little is known about Shufi's before his election as Head of the Organization Bureau of the party's
At the time of his appointment to the post of Head of the Organization Bureau, Shufi was 36 years of age.
The 1st Regional Congress (held in September 1963) elected Shufi as Regional Secretary of the Syrian Regional Branch and its Regional Command.[4] The Military Committee submitted a report to the 2nd Regional Congress in which it accused Shufi of the electoral irregularities and the factionalism which took place during 1st Regional Congress because of his position as Organization Bureau head.[4] At the 6th National Congress Shufi, alongside al-Sadi from Iraq, dominated procedures.[5] Aflaq was barely able to hold on to his position as Secretary General, while al-Bitar was not reelected to the National Command.[5] When the Iraqi Ba'athists were ousted from power in 1963, the party's Marxist faction were blamed for the disaster.[6] Shufi and his supporters were expelled from the Ba'ath Party by the Extraordinary Regional and National Congresses (held in February 1964).[6]
Shufi would not play an important role in national politics again until after the Corrective Movement in which Hafez al-Assad came to power.[7] He served for a short while as Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, resigning from his post on 27 December 1979.[7] Three years later, in New York City, United States in 1982, Shufi announced the establishment of a government-in-exile, called the National Alliance for the Liberation of Syria (NALS).[8] NALS had 20 members, which included the Muslim Brootherhood. The organization opposed what it considered the anti-democratic government in Syria.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Rabinovich 1972, p. 77.
- ^ a b c Seale 1990, p. 86.
- ^ Seale 1990, p. 87.
- ^ a b Rabinovich 1972, p. 78.
- ^ a b Seale 1990, p. 88.
- ^ a b Seale 1990, p. 92.
- ^ a b Szajkowski & Degenhardt 2004, p. 470.
- ^ a b Arnold 1991, p. 331.
Notes
- ISBN 0582086922.
- Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963–66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers.
- ISBN 978-0-520-06976-3.
- Szajkowski, Bogdan; Degenhardt, Henry W. (2004). Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World. ISBN 0954381122.