Sami al-Hinnawi
Muhammad Sami Hilmi al-Hinnawi Arabic محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي, DMG Muḥammad Sāmī Ḥilmī al-Ḥinnāwī ; (* 1898 in Aleppo ; † October 31, 1950 in Beirut , Lebanon ) was a Syrian military with the rank of colonel and politician who was a member of the Social Nationalist Party .
Life
Al-Hinnawi was born in Aleppo in what was then the Ottoman Empire and first served in the Ottoman army before joining the French-Syrian army during the time of the French League of Nations mandate .
After the creation of the Syrian Republic , Hinnawi overthrew President Husni al-Za'im's military rule in August 1949 . After the coup , he ordered that Za'im and Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi be taken to Mezze prison in Damascus , where they were both executed in front of Muhsin al-Barazi's son . Hinnaui was then installed as the leader of a new military junta , but Adib Chichakli remained the military dominant. He carried out a new military coup in 1949 (the third of the year), thereby strengthening the dictatorship.
On October 31, 1950, Hinnaui was murdered in Beirut by Herscho al-Barazi, Muhsin al-Barazi's cousin.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A rare picture of General Sami al-Hinnawi, the Chief-of-Staff of the Syrian Army who toppled and killed President Husni al-Za'im at syrianhistory.com
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| SURNAME | Hinnawi, Sami al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hinnaui, Sami |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Coup leader and head of the military junta |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aleppo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1950 |
| Place of death | Beirut , Lebanon |