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After the war, 1993

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6 entries, 3 days.

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Monday, 4 January 1993

From the books

A Ministry for the Displaced and a central fund are created.
Laws 190 and 193 created the ministry and a fund to pay for the return of the displaced, most of them Christians forced out of the Mountain. Walid Jumblatt, whose forces had driven out many of them, ran the ministry from 1992 to 1998.

Sources differ: 1992 (Haugbolle; Picard: minister from October 1992) or 4 January 1993 (de Clerck, Abou Jaoudé, citing the laws). The portfolio may predate the founding laws.

Sunday, 25 July 1993

From the books range

Israel's 'Operation Accountability' bombards southern Lebanon for a week.
Israel's week-long ground and air offensive on Hezbollah positions killed about 130 Lebanese and no Israelis. It damaged the power grid and sent nearly 300,000 fleeing north. The Lebanese army then deployed there.

Sources differ: Deaths: 130 (Picard) or 129 (Fisk).

Friday, 10 September 1993

From the books

Lebanon abandons its bilateral talks with Israel.
Pressed by Damascus, Lebanon turned down Israel's last offers at the eleventh round of bilateral talks in Washington and gave up the negotiations.

1993: day not established

1993

From the books

Solidere is set up to rebuild Beirut's centre.
Around 2000 the new district was still mostly deserted (Picard), though the state had given the company unusual property rights. Hariri set it up to rebuild central Beirut; its razing of historic buildings and sweeping expropriations caused fierce dispute. Fisk notes that Hariri owned 10 percent of the shares.
Art and memory
  • place Bernard Khoury gave B018, built in 1998 where the Karantina massacre took place, the look of a shelter or a coffin; it became the press's favourite example of Beirut's war-themed nightlife. In 2004 a bar called '1975', with sandbags and camouflage netting, opened on Monot Street.
  • film Ziad Doueiri's West Beyrouth (1998) was a popular success that showed a 'war without blood'; its 1975 bus helped make the Ain al-Remmaneh bus a memory symbol.

May 1993

From the books

The cabinet adopts a national strategy for the return of the displaced.
Compensation was $5,000 for vacating an illegally occupied home, $12,000 for repairs and $22,500 per heir for rebuilding. Reconciliation between Druze residents and Christian returnees was added as an aim, in designated 'reconciliation villages'.

September 1993

From the books

The army kills 13 Hezbollah demonstrators protesting the Oslo Accord.
Soldiers fired on a mass protest against the Oslo Accord in Beirut's southern suburbs soon after the accord was signed.