List of assassinated Lebanese politicians

rdf:langString List of assassinated Lebanese politicians

rdf:langString This is a list of many, but not all, of the assassinated Lebanese political figures: * Amine Abouchahine - senior member of the Progressive Socialist Party. Assassinated on 15 July 1975 by a member of the Kataeb Regulatory Forces. * Sheikh Ahmad Assaf - Lebanese Sunni cleric. Assassinated in April 1982. * Henri Philippe Pharaoun - Member of parliament. Murdered on 6 August 1993. * Saleh al Aridi - a leader of the Lebanese Democratic Party. Assassinated on 10 September 2008. * Dany Chamoun - leader of National Liberal Party, son of Camille Chamoun. Assassinated on 21 October 1990. * Mohamad Chatah - Former Lebanese Finance Minister and critic of Syria and Hezbollah. A senior adviser to the Sunni Future politician Saad Hariri. Assassinated on 27 December 2013. * Mohammad Choucair - adviser to the former President Amine Gemayel. Assassinated on 2 August 1987. * Wissam Eid - an officer in the Internal Security Forces investigating the 2005 Hariri assassination. Assassinated on 25 January 2008. * Walid Eido - parliament Member. Assassinated on 13 June 2007. * Anwar al-Fatayri - member of the PSP and junior commander of the People's Liberation Army. * Tony Frangieh - son of former President Suleiman Frangieh. Assassinated on 13 June 1978, known as Ehden Massacre. * Bachir Gemayel - former President-Elect, founder of Lebanese Forces, son of Pierre Gemayel. Assassinated on 14 September 1982. * Pierre Amine Gemayel - Minister of Industry and leader of Kataeb. Assassinated on 21 November 2006. * Antoine Ghanem - parliament Member. Assassinated on 19 September 2007. * Fouad Haddad - Journalist and columnist at the Kataeb Party’s Al Amal newspaper. Kidnapped in Beirut and killed in September 1958. * François al-Hajj - Brigadier General of the Lebanese Army. Assassinated on 12 December 2007. * Nizar al-Halabi - leader of the Sufi Al-Ahbash movement assassinated by members of Osbat al-Ansar on 31 August 1995. * Ragheb Harb - was a Lebanese resistance leader and Muslim cleric. Assassinated on 16 February 1984. * Rafik Hariri and Bassel Fleihan - former Lebanese Prime Minister and Former Minister, respectively. Assassinated on 14 February 2005. * Wissam al-Hassan, head of information branch of the Internal Security Forces. Assassinated on 19 October 2012. * George Hawi - former secretary general of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP). Assassinated on 21 June 2005. * Elie Hobeika - militia commander, politician. Assassinated on 24 January 2002. * Ramzi Irani - Lebanese Forces student representative at Lebanese University. Assassinated on 7 May 2002. * Fouad Jumblatt - a leader in the Chouf District, and father of Kamal Jumblatt, later assassinated as well. Assassinated on 6 August 1921. * Kamal Jumblatt - founder of Progressive Socialist Party. Assassinated on 16 March 1977. * Rashid Karami - former Prime Minister. Assassinated on 1 June 1987. * Samir Kassir - university professor, journalist and historian. Assassinated on 2 June 2005. * Hassan Khaled - former Grand Mufti of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community. Assassinated on 16 May 1989. * Hassan al-Laqqis- was a military commander of Hezbollah. Assassinated between 3 and 4 December 2013. * Salim Lawzi - journalist. Assassinated some time between 24 February and 6 March 1980. * Nasib Al Matni - a Nasserist journalist, assassinated in Beirut on 8 May 1958. * René Moawad - former Lebanese president. Assassinated on 22 November 1989. * Kamel Mrowa - the publisher of Al-Hayat and The Daily Star newspapers. Gunned down at his office in Beirut on 16 May 1966. Mrowa was critical of Gamal Abdel Nasser. * Imad Mughniyah - senior Hezbollah member. Assassinated on 12 February 2008. * Abbas al-Musawi - leader of Hezbollah. Assassinated on 16 February 1992. * Nazem el Qadri - member of the Lebanese Parliament. Assassinated on 22 September 1989. * Maarouf Saad - Mayor of Sidon and founder of the Popular Nasserist Organization. Shot by a sniper on 26 February 1975 and died on 6 March 1975. See Lebanese Civil War. * Sobhi Saleh - head of the Sunni Islamic Higher Council. Assassinated on October 1986. * Lokman Slim - was a publisher, political activist and commentator. Assassinated on 4 February 2021. * Riad Al Solh - first prime minister of Lebanon. Assassinated on 17 July 1951. * Riad Taha - journalist and president of the Lebanese Publishers Association. Assassinated on 23 July 1980. * Gebran Tueni - politician and newspaper editor. Assassinated on 12 December 2005.