Franso Hariri

Franso Toma Hariri (Syriac: ܦܪܢܣܘ ܚܪܝܪܝ, Kurdish: فەڕەنسۆ هەریری; 1937 – February 18, 2001), was an Iraqi Assyrian politician, and a high-ranking and long-standing Kurdistan Democratic Party member and head of the KDP block of the Kurdistan Region Parliament.

He worked for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the early 1960s and was a close friend of the late Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani.

He was elected a member of the KDP Central Committee in 1979 and was the head of the KDP delegation in the Kurdistan regional parliament, the governor of Erbil, and a minister in the third Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil.

Hariri was assassinated on his way to work on February 18, 2001 by four Kurdish Ansar al-Islam members.

[1][2] Two previous attempts had been made on his life in Erbil on 1994 and 1997 at the same place and the same street but he escaped from both.