12 October 2005

☠Ghazi Kanaan found dead in his Damascus office: "suicide"

Syria#Syrian presence #Hariri & the tribunal

PartiesSyria / Syrian ArmySpecial Tribunal & UN investigation

On 12 October 2005 the official Syrian news agency announced that the interior minister Ghazi Kanaan had killed himself with a gunshot in his office, about a month after his questioning by the Mehlis commission and days before its first report.

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Detlev Mehlis appointed (context)

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Damascus crisis-cell bombing kills Assef Shawkat, Dawoud Rajha and Hassan Turkmani (context)

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