14 September 1982

☠Assassination of Bachir Gemayel

Beirut & suburbs#Civil war #Assassinations

AttackerSSNP➜TargetPresidency

On 14 September 1982 president-elect Bachir Gemayel was killed with 26 others in a huge explosion at the Kataeb headquarters in Ashrafieh. Habib Shartouni of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party confessed to planting the bomb.

▲ Election of Bachir Gemayel Sabra and Shatila massacre ▼

Cause

Election of Bachir Gemayel (context)The Deir al-Qamar speech: "the 10,452 km²" (context)

Leads to

Sabra and Shatila massacre

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