On the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, several political leaders paid tribute to the president-elect, who was killed on September 14, 1982.
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam wrote on X, “More than four decades have passed since the assassination of President Bachir Gemayel... his slogan remains: Lebanon on 10,452 km².”
“Political assassinations are the antithesis of the freedom and democracy to which we aspire,” he added, before insisting that “Lebanon can only turn the page on its painful past through truth and reconciliation, to end the era of denial and political violence.”
For his part, Minister of Information Paul Morcos recalled that in commemorating “the assassination of President Sheikh Bachir Gemayel, we see Lebanon today taking concrete steps for the first time toward what the martyred president wanted: to rebuild the state and assert its authority.”
The leader of the Kataeb Party, MP Samy Gemayel, said that “43 years after his martyrdom at the Kataeb House, Bachir has triumphed and, with him, a free, sovereign and independent Lebanon.”
“It is no coincidence that Presidents Bachir Gemayel and René Moawad were assassinated a few days after their election: the goal was the same: to consolidate occupation, hegemony and tutelage, and to prevent the advent of a free, sovereign and independent state, master of its weapons and its decisions,” said MP Michel Moawad. “But 43 years after Bachir's assassination, Lebanon, as a country, a state and a project, is beginning to triumph over those who wanted, through bloodshed, to turn it into a mere arena for their interests,” he added.
Meanwhile, Kataeb MP Salim el-Sayegh told Radio Voice of Lebanon, “We began to measure the consequences of President Bachir Gemayel's assassination as soon as his death was announced. Our generation of resistance fighters experienced this event as a loss that goes beyond that of a man, a leader or an elected president. What he accomplished and represented in the Lebanese consciousness, not only Christian, constitutes an irreparable historical event.”
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