●The Deir al-Qamar speech: "the 10,452 km²"

On 12 September 1982 president-elect Bachir Gemayel gave the last of his public speeches in Deir al-Qamar before the returning townspeople, declaring that the state's authority would extend over the whole of "the 10,452 square kilometres" and that there would be no statelets and no militias; he was killed two days later.