Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (; 1898 – 31 October 1950) was a
Syrian politician and military officer.
Life
On December 19, 1949,
Adib Shishakli carried out a
coup d'état
A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup
, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...
(the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 31, 1950, al-Hinnawi was assassinated in
Beirut
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, the capital of
Lebanon
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, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of
Muhsin al-Barazi
Muhsin al-Barazi (; 1904 – 14 August 1949) was a Syrian lawyer, academic and politician. He served a short term as a Prime Minister of Syria in 1949 and was executed after a coup d'état overthrew his government.
Early life
Al-Barazi, born i ...
, the Prime Minister who had been overthrown and killed in Hinnawi's coup.
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1898 births
1950 deaths
Chiefs of staff of the Syrian Army
Politicians from Aleppo
Syrian people murdered abroad
Syrian Social Nationalist Party politicians
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