Bachir Gemayel (Arabic:بشير الجميّل;10 , Arabic pronunciation:[baʃiːr ʤɪmei'ɪl] November 10 1947 – 14 September 1982) was a Lebanese leader and president-elect. He was a senior member of the Phalange party and the supreme commander of the Lebanese Forces militia during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90). He was elected president on 23 August 1982 while the country was torn by civil war and occupied by both Israel and Syria. He was assassinated on 14 September 1982, along with 26 others, when a bomb exploded in the Beirut Phalange headquarters. The bomb was planted by Habib Tanious Shartouni. The Federal Bureau of Investigation blamed the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP).
Early life
Bachir was born in the Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut on 10 November 1947, the youngest of six children. The Gemayel family originated from Bikfaya village in the Matn District of Lebanon and is one of the most influential Christian families in the country. His father was Pierre Gemayel, who founded the Phalange party in 1936 as a youth movement. Bachir Gemayel attended the JesuitCollège Notre Dame de Jamhour and the Institution Moderne du Liban (IML)- Fanar. He completed his university education at St. Joseph University (Université Saint-Joseph - USJ) in Beirut. After teaching for three years at the Lebanese Modern Institute, he graduated in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in law and another in political sciences in 1973. In 1971, Gemayel studied at The Center for American and International Law near Dallas, Texas in the United States. Qualifying in 1972, he joined the bar association and opened an office in Hamra Street, West Beirut.
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(20 Oct 1978) Interview With Bashir Gemayel, Commander in Chief of the Christian militia in Lebanon in which he accused the United States' State Department of burying its head in the sand over the ambitions of Syria in Lebanon.
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(13 Apr 1979) Lebanese President, Bachir Gemayel, at rally in Beirut.
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(20 Jul 1980) Bashir Gemayel, commander of the defence forces in Lebanon gives a press conference about the continuing struggle in Lebanon.
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(8 Oct 1976) Head of Phalangist Militia in Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel speaking to press in Beirut.
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(21 Oct 1978) Interview with Bashir Gemayel. Bashir Gemayel, younger son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Kataeb Social Democratic Party of Lebanon, and key Lebanese politcal figure. Following the eruption of the Lebanese-PLO war in in April 1976, Bashir joined his fellow militia members of the Kataeb party in defending Christian areas against PLO attacks. When William Hawi, Commander-in-Chief of the Kataeb Military Counicl was killed in the Lebanese Forces siege of the PLO stronghold in Tell Zaatar in July 1976, Bashir was named to proceed him. By August 30, he was appointed head of the unified command of the Lebanese Forces, a coalition of the Christian militias of the Kataeb Party, National Liberal Party, the Tanzim and the Guardians of the Cedars. Here Gemayel discusses the current po...
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(20 Oct 1978) Interview With Bashir Gemayel, Commander in Chief of the Christian militia in Lebanon in which he accused the United States' State Department of b...
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(21 Oct 1978) Interview with Bashir Gemayel. Bashir Gemayel, younger son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Kataeb Social Democratic Party of Lebanon, and key Lebanese politcal figure. Following the eruption of the Lebanese-PLO war in in April 1976, Bashir joined his fellow militia members of the Kataeb party in defending Christian areas against PLO attacks. When William Hawi, Commander-in-Chief of the Kataeb Military Counicl was killed in the Lebanese Forces siege of the PLO stronghold in Tell Zaatar in July 1976, Bashir was named to proceed him. By August 30, he was appointed head of the unified command of the Lebanese Forces, a coalition of the Christian militias of the Kataeb Party, National Liberal Party, the Tanzim and the Guardians of the Cedars. Here Gemayel discusses the current political situation.
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Bachir Gemayel (Arabic:بشير الجميّل;10 , Arabic pronunciation:[baʃiːr ʤɪmei'ɪl] November 10 1947 – 14 September 1982) was a Lebanese leader and president-elect. He was a senior member of the Phalange party and the supreme commander of the Lebanese Forces militia during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90). He was elected president on 23 August 1982 while the country was torn by civil war and occupied by both Israel and Syria. He was assassinated on 14 September 1982, along with 26 others, when a bomb exploded in the Beirut Phalange headquarters. The bomb was planted by Habib Tanious Shartouni. The Federal Bureau of Investigation blamed the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP).
Early life
Bachir was born in the Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut on 10 November 1947, the youngest of six children. The Gemayel family originated from Bikfaya village in the Matn District of Lebanon and is one of the most influential Christian families in the country. His father was Pierre Gemayel, who founded the Phalange party in 1936 as a youth movement. Bachir Gemayel attended the JesuitCollège Notre Dame de Jamhour and the Institution Moderne du Liban (IML)- Fanar. He completed his university education at St. Joseph University (Université Saint-Joseph - USJ) in Beirut. After teaching for three years at the Lebanese Modern Institute, he graduated in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in law and another in political sciences in 1973. In 1971, Gemayel studied at The Center for American and International Law near Dallas, Texas in the United States. Qualifying in 1972, he joined the bar association and opened an office in Hamra Street, West Beirut.
Bachir Gemayel (August 21, 1982 – September 14, 1982). Bachir Gemayel promised to rebuild the state, fight corruption, and reduce the influence of militias in favor of the state ...Amin Gemayel (1982 – 1988).
A republic without a president. On January 9, 2024, Lebanese lawmakers managed to elect a new president ... However, there was no single leader among the Christians who could assert his authority over the entire community like Bachir Gemayel did in 1982.
Gemayel recalled former President Bachir Gemayel, "who was assassinated by the Assad regime and remains in the collective memory to this day." ... Gemayel credited the Syrian people with overthrowing dictatorship, calling it their victory.
She testified, “On 14 September1982, the Lebanese President Bachir Gemayel was assassinated ... However, since it was the morning after Bachir Gemayel’s (the then President-elect) death, there were no taxis to take me to Damascus.
Gemayel's father Amine Gemayel, who served as Lebanese president from 1982 until 1988, and his uncle Bachir Gemayel, were both prominent figures within the Kataeb Party and had associations with Israel during the Lebanon's Civil War.
That has raised hopes among its opponents both foreign and domestic that it may also be vulnerable politically ... and Israel ... Even as the U.S ... U.S ... In 1982, Christian president-elect Bachir Gemayel came to power with Israeli and U.S. support ... .
His plan was to drive out the PLO and install a leading Maronite, Bachir Gemayel, as president ... Gemayel was sworn in, only to be blown up by a remote-controlled bomb three weeks into his presidency, ...
... by the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the leader of the Kataeb Party, shortly after he was elected president during the country’s ongoing civil war from 1975–1990.
On September 14, 1982, Bachir Gemayel, the Lebanese president-elect and leader of the Lebanese Forces, was killed when an explosion rocked the party's headquarters in the Achrafieh area of Beirut.
During a commemoration on the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of former President Bachir Gemayel, MP Nadim Gemayel emphasized the need to build a country where children are not killed. .
A pro-Israeli government was briefly installed under president Bachir Gemayel in August 1982, but he was assassinated by a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party less than a month later.
In 1982, the Israelis launched an ill-advised invasion of Lebanon to defeat the PLO, allied with Lebanon’s Christian-majority government, led by Bachir Gemayel. Gemayel was assassinated later that ...
Authoritarian dictatorships of all kinds, both on the Right and on the Left, have been collapsing ... Dr ... In reality – the massacre was the work of the Lebanese ChristianPhalange forces following the assassination of Lebanon's President Bachir Gemayel.
After Israel’s 1982 invasion of southern Lebanon following the assassination of its ambassador Shlomo Argov in London by Palestinian radicals, Israel essentially endorsed the candidacy of Bachir Gemayel for president of Lebanon.