الاغتيالات السياسية في مصر حالة حسن ألبنا أنموذجاً

Abstract

       Political assassinations in Egypt reflect the extent of internal and external conflicts within the ruling political class. This becomes evident in how the course of events has often been altered through assassinations and the physical elimination of rivals. Anyone who examines Egypt’s history across its various periods will notice that the use of excessive violence in politics has been a prevailing and unmistakable feature.

       Violence was not limited to political opposition alone, there was also numerous political assassinations carried out by the government itself to eliminate opponents in ways that would not provoke chaos or violence among different segments of society. This was clearly exemplified in the assassination of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, on February 19, 1949. The government of Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha resorted to physically eliminating al-Banna after accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of assassinating Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmy al-Noqrashi. Thus, the assassination of Hassan al-Banna came as a reaction by the Egyptian government to the acts of violence and assassinations carried out by the Brotherhood.