Sami al-Hinnawi

Sami al-Hinnawi سامي الحناوي
Personal details
Born	1898 Aleppo, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Syria
Died	October 31, 1950 (aged 51–52) Beirut, Lebanon
Nationality	Syrian
Political party	Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Military service
Rank	Colonel

Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (Arabic: محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي‎) was a Syrian politician and military officer.

Life[]

Al-Hinnawi was born in Aleppo and had served in the Ottoman army before serving in the French-Syrian army during the French Mandate of Syria.^{[citation needed]}

Al-Hinnawi overthrew the military rule of Syrian President Husni al-Za'im on August 14, 1949 with the aid of fellow members in the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, including Adib al-Shishakli.^{[citation needed]} After the coup, he swiftly ordered al-Za'im and Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi to be brought to Mezze prison in Damascus, where both were executed in front of Muhsin al-Barazi's son.^{[citation needed]}

Al-Hinnawi was then installed as leader of a military junta, but al-Shishakli remained the military strongman.^{[citation needed]} On December 19, 1949, Shishakli carried out another 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.^[1]

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