Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (Arabic: محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي, romanized: Muḥammad Sāmī Ḥilmī al-Ḥinnāwī; 1898 – 31 October 1950) was a Syrian politician and military officer.
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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 assassinated in Beirut, the capital of 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]
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