On 25 March 1922 the French Attorney General requested the execution of Hananu, and he said "if Hananu has seven heads I will cut them all", but the French judge ultimately released Hananu following an agreement between him and the French government | Assassination attempt [ ] In September 1933, an individual named Nazi Al-Kousa shot Hananu in the legs in his village, |
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Regarded as an assassination attempt, the shooter was sentenced to 10 years in jail | On July 23, 1920, when the French army successfully attacked Aleppo, Hananu was forced to retreat back to his village of and began to reorganize the revolt with |
He was one of the founding fathers of the which steered the course of the independence struggle in Syria until its achievement in 1946.
5One Syrian source from the era indicates that having embraced nationalism when the broke out in 1916, Hananu joined the Arab army of and entered Aleppo with the Allies in 1918 | Hananu was responsible for the disarmament of many French troops, the destruction of railroads and telegraph lines, the sabotage of tanks, and the foiling of French attacks on Aleppo |
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Death [ ] Hananu died in 1935 in Aleppo | Philip Khoury, Syria and the French Mandate, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987 |
The three-day mourning period began the day after with newspapers and magazines being published in a black cover.
17Later years [ ] Hananu was put under house arrest following the trial and his movements were monitored by the French intelligence | With the withdrawal of Turkish military assistance following the signing of the in October 1921, Hananu and his men could no longer sustain a revolt, and their struggle collapsed |
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Trial [ ] In 1922 Ibrahim Hananu was arrested and presented to the French military criminal court on charges of criminal acts, and the first sessions was on 15 March 1922 | In the 1930s, he affirmed his reputation as a hard-liner, refusing to negotiate with the French until they pledged complete unconditional independence for Syria |
In 1928, Hananu held office on the Constitutional Assembly that drafted the.
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