Bachir Gemayel

Bachir Gemayel was a Lebanese leader and presidentelect. 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 . He was elected president onAugust 1982 while the country was torn by civil war and occupied by both Israel and Syria. He was assassinated onSeptember 1982, along withothers, 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 .

Bachir was born in the Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut onNovember 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 Jesuit Collge Notre Dame de Jamhour and the Institution Moderne du Liban Fanar. He completed his university education at St. Joseph University in Beirut. After teaching for three years at the Lebanese Modern Institute, he graduated in 1971 with a bachelors 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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