Hafez Al-Akim

Hafez Al-Akim was the President of Karuchea from 1990-2003. He was the right-hand of Muhammed El-Shabazz and was designated his successor. In 1990, he promised a continuation of Arab Nationalism and Islamic Socialism, but with the fall of the Soviet Union and certain economic aid, he backed off of this and began to privatize the economy. Despite strikes he continued this in the name of Arab Nationalism until 1994 when he dismissed this and called the idea of Pan-Arabism "A dream and nothing more" and delivered the State of Karuchea in 1994 on the failures of Pan-Arabism. This severly disillusioned the populace, which had been fed propaganda about Arab Unity for 40 years. All of this led to the revolt of 1995 where Hafez ordered Bashar Al-Mohamet to send in the military, however, Bashar refused and led the overthrow and execution of Hafez in November of 1995.