Bachir Gemayel

ALL about Bachir Gemayel

Bachir Gemayel & Fouad Abou Nader

In 1962, he joined the Lebanese Kataeb Social Democratic Party and became a member in the Kataeb Student Section. In 1971, he was appointed inspector in the para-military branch of the Kataeb party, the Kataeb Regulatory Forces. In 1974, he joined the "B.G." (Bejin) squad, the core of the Lebanese Forces, which was formed by university students in order to face the Palestinian military danger, reflected at that time by armed barricades, kidnapping and attacks on citizens.

In 1976, upon the death of William Hawi, he became president of the Kataeb Military Council and the head of the command council of the Lebanese Forces, a coalition of the Lebanese Front militias: the militia of the Kataeb Party, the militia of the National Liberal Party (the tigers), the militia of the Lebanese National Movement (the guardians of the cedar) and the militia of the Lebanese Resistance Movement (tanzim). Between 1977 and 1980, he unified "the gun" of the Lebanese Forces. Bachir Gemayel led the Lebanese Forces Resistance against the Palestinian organizations, the Syrian army and their Lebanese allies. The Lebanese parliament elected him president of the Lebanese Republic on August 23, 1982. He was killed along with many of his companions in the explosion of the Kataeb headquarters in the Achrafieh sector on September 14, 1982.