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February 1994

Sunday, 27 February 1994

After the war · From the books

A bomb kills worshippers in a church near Jounieh.
A bomb killed people in the church of Sayidet al-Najat. Samir Geagea, charged over it but acquitted, was then tried over wartime political killings.

Sources differ: Location given as Jounieh (Picard) or Zouk (de Clerck); the church is commonly called Notre-Dame de la Délivrance, the French form of Sayidat al-Najat.

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April 1994

April 1994: day not established

After the war · From the books

The Lebanese Forces party is banned and Samir Geagea jailed.
Tried for the 1990 murder of Dany Chamoun and his family, Geagea lost his amnesty; a death sentence, commuted to life, jailed him eleven years. Picard calls him the one war leader who defied post-war rules. The ban fed the Christian ihbat.

Sources differ: Conviction in 1994 (Picard 2016) or 1995 (Quéméner). Picard 2002 also names the 1987 killing of Rashid Karami among the charges.

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May 1994

Wednesday, 18 May 1994

After the war · From the books

Parliament votes $543 million for the return of the displaced.
Law 333 funded a first, three-year phase in 192 villages, a third of them wholly destroyed, covering 40,000 families or some 200,000 people. Christian return to the southern Mountain was just 17 per cent in 2005.

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July 1994

July 1994: day not established

After the war · From the books

A UN-backed programme for returning families is launched.
With UNDP and the UN Volunteers, the ministry launched 'A'idun' ('returnees') to help displaced people resettle and make a living.

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September 1994

Saturday, 10 September 1994

After the war · From the books

Fairuz sings in the reopened Martyrs' Square.
In many Lebanese memories the concert marked the point when the country began leaving the war behind.

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September 1994: day not established

After the war · From the books

An Orontes water-sharing agreement leaves 80 percent of the flow to Syria.
Elie Hobeika, then Lebanon's hydroelectric resources minister, signed it. Because its terms damaged Hermel farmers, it was reworked in 1997 and amended in 2001.

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October 1994

October 1994: day not established

After the war · From the books

Lebanon and Syria sign an agreement on the movement of workers.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians, most without work permits, laboured on the rebuilding. Their number was hotly disputed: the president said 70,000 in August 1995, the joint Supreme Council 203,000 in July 1998, while the press repeated 1.5 million.

Sources differ: Numbers of Syrian workers vary from 70,000 to 1.5 million depending on who counts.

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1994

1994: day not established

After the war · From the books

Two mobile telephone companies are licensed.
LibanCell (a minister's son) and Cellis (the Miqati brothers) ran until 2001; Picard says the market was divided in Damascus, with covert Syrian partners.

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February 2012

February 2012: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Fighting in Tripoli between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen (February-December 2012).
From February to December, Tripoli's pro-regime Alawite quarter of Jabal Mohsen and its Sunni quarter of Bab al-Tebbaneh, which backed the Syrian opposition, clashed.

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June 2012

Monday, 11 June 2012

Since 2005 · From the books

The Baabda Declaration commits Lebanon to 'dissociation' from regional conflicts.
The declaration, agreed at President Sleiman's National Dialogue, pledged 'dissociation' from regional conflicts and border control, mainly towards Syria; Picard considers the promise empty from the outset.

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October 2012

Friday, 19 October 2012

Since 2005 · From the books

Intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan is assassinated.
Seven people died along with Wissam al-Hassan, head of ISF intelligence and an investigator of Hariri's assassination, in a Beirut car bombing.

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2012

2012: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Former minister Michel Samaha is arrested.
Picard treats the arrest as evidence that Syrian-paid agents took part in the unrest after the 2005 withdrawal.

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