Salah Jadid
Salah Jadid | |
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صلاح جديد | |
Salah Jadid in 1968. | |
| Assistant Regional Secretary of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
| In office 1 August 1965 – 13 November 1970 | |
| Regional Secretary | Amin al-Hafiz Nureddin al-Atassi |
| Preceded by | Muhammad az-Zubi |
| Succeeded by | Jaber Bajbouj |
| Chief of Staff of the Syrian Army | |
| In office 11 November 1963 – 1966 | |
| Preceded by | Ziad al-Hariri |
| Succeeded by | Ahmed Suidani |
| Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
| In office March 1966 – 13 November 1970 | |
| In office 1 February 1964 – 19 December 1965 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1926 Dweir Baabda, Alawite State, French Syria |
| Died | 19 August 1993 (aged 66–67) Mezzeh prison, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic |
| Political party | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
| Other political affiliations | Ba'ath Party (1947–1966) Syrian Social Nationalist Party |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | First Syrian Republic (1946–1950) Second Syrian Republic (1950–1958; 1961–1963) United Arab Republic (1958–1961) Ba'athist Syria (1963–1970) |
| Branch/service | Syrian Army |
| Years of service | 1946–1970 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Battles/wars | |
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Salah Jadid (Arabic: صلاح جديد, romanized: Ṣalāḥ Jadīd; 1926 – 19 August 1993) was a Syrian military officer and politician who was the leader of the far-left bloc of the Syrian Regional Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and the de facto leader of Ba'athist Syria from 1966 until 1970, when he was ousted by Hafez al-Assad's Corrective Movement.
Jadid came to power after a coup in 1966. Although he did not rule directly, preferring to remain in the shadows, he wielded all real power in Syria through his allies in key positions of power. In just four years in power, Jadid built a totalitarian neo-Ba’athist regime, sometimes called "neo-Marxist". His harsh imposition of radical socialist ideology, brutal repression, and anti-religious policies alienated almost all sectors of Syrian society. His foreign policy alienated most of Syria's potential allies in the Arab world and triggered the Six-Day War. Salah Jadid was overthrown by his former colleague Hafez al-Assad in 1970 in the so-called "Corrective Movement".