Chronology - 111101

Lebanese war chronology

October 5, 1989		October 5, 6, 7, 8 Not much is happening in Taef where efforts are being deployed in order to come up with a consensus on the national agreement document.
October 9, 1989		Time to go back to school after a long interruption. It is in fact a continuation of the annual program because the 88/89 program has not been achieved.
October 15, 1989		October 15, 16, 17, 18 In Taef, an agreement on the reforms was practically reached after few days of uncertainty. The only subject that had not been brought up was the withdrawal of the Syrian troops from the Lebanese territories.
October 22, 1989		58 deputies approve the final text of the compromise rejected by General Aoun.
October 24, 1989		While the Arab Troïka rushes the Chamber to elect a President before November 7th, tens of thousands of Lebanese say 'no' to the Taef agreement through a giant demonstration that goes from Hazmieh to Baabda.
November 1, 1989		The five permanent members of the Security Council are in favor of the Taef agreement.
November 4, 1989		At the last minute, the deputies decided not to return to Lebanon to meet with general Aoun. At 5 o'clock in the morning, Aoun decided to dissolve the Chamber and asked the members of parliament to adjourn their vote.
November 5, 1989		The 'dissolved' National Assembly met at the military base of Kleyate and elected Rene Moawad new President of the Republic. Angry demonstrators invaded the patriarchal office of Bkerke. The Patriarch took refuge in Dimane. He came back later at the request of General Aoun.
November 8, 1989		A car bomb explodes on Abou Taleb Street in Hamra one hour before the arrival of President Moawad to West Beirut.
November 17, 1989		While Selim Hoss is asked to form the new government, retaliations take place against some deputies from Eastern regions.
November 22, 1989		As soon as the ceremonies celebrating Independence Day ended, and after President Moawad left the Governmental Serail in Sanyeh, his car was destroyed by an important load of explosives.
November 24, 1989		Elias Hraoui is elected President of the Republic by an Assembly reunited at the Chtaura Park Hotel, on the eve of the National Funerals of the defunct President.
November 26, 1989		The government created by Selim Hoss gets the Parliament's confidence.
November 28, 1989		Several reports mentionned important Syrian movements towards the Eastern fronts. In response to General Aoun's call, thousands of Lebanese went to Baabda and watched the Palace day and night.
November 29, 1989		November 29, 30 French opposition deputies go to Baabda to express their solidarity.
December 4, 1989		Violent combats between Amal and the Hezbollah in the West of the Bekaa end with the expulsion of Amal from the villages in the region.
December 10, 1989		After being shut down for two weeks, schools and universities open again in the Eastern regions.
December 18, 1989		Over 300,000 persons participate in the 'flag walk' in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace in Baabda.
December 24, 1989		The two hours meeting between General Aoun and Samir Geagea seem to have pacified their relations.
January 3, 1990		General Michel Aoun admits the existence, in France, of a bank account in his name, with the amount of 15 million dollars. However, he explains that this money is only used for the defense of his country.
January 5, 1990		After having spent 43 days in the military casern of Ablah, President Elias Hraoui leaves the Bekaa and settles in Ramlet-el-Beida. The photographer of L'Orient-Le Jour and the Nahar, Georges Semerdjian dies while on the field.
January 31, 1990		Fights opposing the Lebanese Forces and General Aoun’s army were reported and deprived certain regions of electricity, phone, and water.
February 3, 1990		February 3, 4 The army takes control of Dbayeh after a tough battle.
February 9, 1990		New dividing lines appeared in the Eastern region and the medias war raged. Hospitals suffered from a serious penury and the Lebanese continued to flee by thousands. That week, 417 were killed and 1,655 wounded.
February 11, 1990		The Kesrouan was now at the center of the Aoun-Geagea conflict. Despite all mediations and attempts to maintain the precarious truce, belligerents were fighting on the new front of Daraya, separating the Metn and the Kesrouan.
February 15, 1990		Despite Mgr Sfeir's pathetic call, a blaze of fire hits the 'Christian country'. The army takes control of Ain el Remmaneh.
February 17, 1990		The Army evacuates 400 soldiers from the Adma base, surrounded for over two weeks. The evacuation takes place with the assistance of the Lebanese Red Cross.
February 25, 1990		The Baroness, a civilian ship transporting passengers from Cyprus to the Eastern regions, is attacked resulting in 1 death and 25 injured. The attackers remain unidentified and the liaison between Jounieh and Larnaca is temporarily interrupted.
March 2, 1990		The Maronite Patriarch threatens to excommunicate Aoun and Geagea, as well as those how obey them, if they continue their fightings. The threat will remain vain despite its reiteration.
March 14, 1990		Six weeks of inter-Christian fightings cost Lebanon over a third of its annual GNP and continue to paralyze the country's industrial heart.
March 20, 1990		The parliament meets for the first time since 1975, Place de l'Etoile, in a downtown abandoned and devastated by war.
March 28, 1990		Pastor William Robinson who was accused of planning the implantation of a Jewish colony and who was expelled from Lebanon, is killed on the bordering band in the South of Lebanon.
March 30, 1990		The battle on the ground starts again with violence and reaches, besides regions of the Kesrouan, Achrafieh's neighborhoods.
April 1, 1990		Deputies who have left the country return on request of Hussein Husseini, Chief of the Parliament.
April 3, 1990		The chief of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, joins President Hraoui, while General Michel Aoun turns to the Arab Troika. At the same time, the N.L.P. withdraws from the commandment of the Lebanese Forces.
April 10, 1990		Jacqueline Valente, her companion and her daughter who were held hostages are released. The new Lebanese Front is created.
April 18, 1990		A bus crossing the Museum passage with teachers and students onboard was shot at. The eleven passengers including the two students were burned alive.
April 23, 1990		While the blockade war rages between the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Forces, the President of the Republic declines Geagea's offer to surrender to him the barracks of Jbeil and the Kesrouan.
May 1, 1990		After having been stable around 500 LBP., the Dollar goes over 600 LBP.
May 8, 1990		General Aoun decides to close all the roads communicating with the regions controlled by the Lebanese Forces while the battle continues to rage.