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Salim Hatum was born on 1928 in Thaybin, Salkhad District, Jabal al-Druze State, French Mandate of Syria, is a Syrian politician. Discover Salim Hatum's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?
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Thaybin, Salkhad District, Jabal al-Druze State, French Mandate of Syria |
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26 June, 1967 |
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Damascus, Syria |
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Salim Hatum Net Worth
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In September 1961 the union was ended after a coup by secessionist officers in Syria.
Arab nationalist officers sought to topple the secessionist government of Nazim al-Qudsi and formed an alliance within the military to launch a coup in 1963.
Hatum was one of the few Ba'athist officers among the Arab nationalists in the army during this period, although the Ba'athists were the most organized force unofficially headed by a secretive grouping known as the Military Committee and officially, if only nominally, organized by the political party under Alfaq.
On 7–8 March 1963 Ziad al-Hariri, an independent unionist officer, headed the coup by leading the takeover of Damascus, capturing several strategic points in the city.
Meanwhile, Hatum led the unionists' capture of the city's radio station.
It then broadcast that the National Council for the Revolutionary Command had replaced the secessionist government and that it was reinstating several discharged Ba'athist officers into the army, including all of those on the Military Committee, which at that time was made of Muhammad Umran, Salah Jadid, Hafez al-Assad, Abd al-Karim al-Jundi and Ahmad al-Mir.
Following the coup's success, Hatum was appointed to the Military Committee, which was expanded to include more members.
He was subsequently promoted to the rank of major.
In addition to the commando unit he headed prior to the coup, Hatum was also made the commander of the army garrisons posted near the strategic radio and television stations.
Hatum was elected as a member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch on 1 August 1965, serving one term that lasted until 19 December of that year.
That year, he also served on the military tribunal to try Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
A member of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he was instrumental in the 1966 Syrian coup d'état that toppled the government of Amin al-Hafiz, also a Ba'athist.
That same year he launched an insurrection from his home region of Jabal al-Druze against his colleagues who formed the new government but sidelined him from any major position.
In February 1966, the regionalist faction of the Committee launched a coup to topple the government.
Jadid assigned Hatum to command a special force and arrest Hafiz from his home in Damascus.
Hafiz resisted and a firefight between him and Hatum's men ensued.
Hatum ordered tank fire against his home and armed clashes raged throughout the city, ending in the deaths of some 50 people.
Hafiz was wounded and his daughter lost an eye during the battle, before Hafiz surrendered himself.
Hatum felt he was not properly rewarded for his role in the 1966 coup, having been kept from any position in the Ba'ath Party's Regional Command or the Syrian government.
Instead he kept his post in the Committee and command over Damascus' radio station.
The leaders of the coup, Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, viewed Hatum as reckless and deplored the severe use of force he deployed and the consequent mass casualties when he arrested Hafiz.
Hatum decided to oust Jadid and Assad by establishing contact with officers and party figures who had been loyal to Bitar and Hafiz, namely former secretary-general of the party's National Command Munif al-Razzaz and former deputy chief of staff Fahd al-Sha'ir.
A coup was planned for 1 July, but delayed until 3 September, upon Hatum's insistence.
In the meantime, in August, one of Hatum's co-conspirators, colonel Talal Abu Asali, publicly cursed Jadid and promised to avenge Hafiz during a drinking session with other officers.
As a result, he was arrested the following day by Chief of Staff Ahmed Suwaydani, who assigned Hatum (who was far from suspicion at that point) to head the investigation against Asali.
During the interrogation, Hatum reportedly whispered to Asali "I will kill anyone who talks".
Jadid became suspicious of Hatum for unclear reasons, stripped him of his investigative role and assigned Syrian intelligence head, Abd al-Karim al-Jundi, to head the interrogation.
After Jundi allegedly tortured Asali, the latter confessed that Sha'ir and Razzaz were planning a coup against the new government, but did not mention Hatum.
Jundi subsequently led a crackdown against officers belonging to the Druze community, like Sha'ir and Hatum, arresting over 200 military personnel.
Salim Hatum (سليم حاطوم; 1928 – 26 June 1967) was a Syrian Army officer who played a significant role in Syrian politics in the 1960s.
He fled Syria amid a warrant for his arrest, but returned in 1967 and was subsequently jailed and executed.
Hatum was born in the village of Dhibin near the town of Salkhad in the Jabal al-Druze region of Syria, during French Mandatory rule.
His family were followers of the Druze religion.
Historian Hanna Batatu describes Hatum's family as part of the "middle landed class," while historian Patrick Seale describes them "poor."
His father had been a director of the census in the area.
Hatum began his military career in the Homs Military Academy, where he also joined the Ba'ath Party, an Arab nationalist movement, headed by Michel Aflaq.
After graduating he became an officer in the Syrian Army, with the rank of captain.