Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi ( ar, 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, Shishakli carried out a
coup d'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
(the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 31, 1950, al-Hinnawi was murdered in
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
,
Lebanon
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, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of
Muhsin al-Barazi, the Prime Minister who was overthrown and killed in Hinnawi's coup.
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1898 births
1950 deaths
Chiefs of Staff of the Syrian Army
Politicians from Beirut
Syrian people murdered abroad
Syrian Social Nationalist Party politicians
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