1. Munif Razzaz was among dozens of dissidents accused of plotting against then new Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge.
22 Facts About Munif Razzaz
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Munif Razzaz died in 1984 during his house arrest in Baghdad.
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Munif Razzaz was buried in Amman according to his only will.
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Munif Razzaz was born in Damascus, Syria on 19 December 1919, but he was raised in Jordan.
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Munif Razzaz's family moved to Jordan in 1925 after his father, a veterinarian, was accused by the French colonial authorities in Syria of collaborating with the rebels during the Great Syrian Revolt by treating their injured horses.
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In 1937 Munif Razzaz was given scholarship at the American University in Beirut after having spent a brief period studying in Cairo.
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Munif Razzaz became a member of the Jordanian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 1950.
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Munif Razzaz was one of the co-founders of the Ba'athist Regional Branch in Jordan, and he promoted the Ba'athist ideology through his writings in national newspapers.
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Munif Razzaz criticized the King Hussein's support of the Baghdad Pact, and his stance towards Gamal Abdel Nasser, the President of Egypt.
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Munif Razzaz was elected Secretary General of the National Command at the 8th National Congress in April 1965, and succeeded Michel Aflaq in office.
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However, Munif Razzaz was not rooted enough in Syrian affairs to find a solution to the crisis which was taking hold in Syria.
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Munif Razzaz then convened an emergency session of the National Command which decreed the dissolution of Yusuf Zu'ayyin's government and the Syrian Regional Command, while they decreed the establishment of a new leadership for Syria; al-Bittar became Prime Minister, Muhammad Umran became Minister of Defense, Amin al-Hafiz became Chairman of a new Presidential Council, and Mansur al-Atrash became Chairman of the National Revolutionary Council.
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Munif Razzaz became the only member of the old National Command to put up any resistance against Jadid's neo-Ba'athist government.
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Hatum forged an alliance with Munif Razzaz, encouraged by messages from comrades from the old National Command, began recruiting military officers to his cause.
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Munif Razzaz managed to form a Military Committee led by Druze officer Major General Fahd al-Sha'ir.
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Munif Razzaz was highly critical of the Syrian regime of Hafez al Assad, writing an exposure book, Al Tajribah al Murrah The Bitter Experience, published in 1966.
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Munif Razzaz became a member of the Palestinian Iraqi-aligned Ba'athist organization Arab Liberation Front in 1966, and through it, rose through the Iraqi-dominated Ba'athist structure.
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In 1977, Munif Razzaz relocated to Iraq and became a leading member of the Iraqi Ba'ath.
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Munif Razzaz was among dozens of dissidents accused of plotting against then new Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge.
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Munif Razzaz puked blood in front of his wife and daughter.
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Munif Razzaz believed that the Arab world was first confronted by Western colonialism at the beginning of the 16th century in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.
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Munif Razzaz claimed that Arab nationalism was the conflict between two forces; the reactionary classes and the masses.