| About Martyrs' Day |
| Martyrs' Day is a Syrian and Lebanese national holiday commemorating the Syrian and Lebanese nationalists excuted in Damascus and Beirut on May 6, 1916 by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman wali. On May 6, the Syrian people celebrate Martyrs' Day, the day when the Ottomans through Jamal Pasha ordered the hanging of Syrian national fighters who called for the independence of the Arab states from the Ottoman Empire occupation. On May 6, 1916, those heroes who refused to concede their national and pan-Arab rights were hanged in Damascus and Beirut. |
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