Sami al-Hinnawi

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sami al-Hinnawi
سامي الحناوي
Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Syria
Died31 October 1950(1950-10-31) (aged 51–52)
Beirut, Lebanon
Political partySyrian Social Nationalist Party
Military service
Rank Colonel

Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (

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 murdered 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]

References

Further reading