Fouad Boutros
Fouad Boutros (Arabic: فؤاد بطرس; 5 November 1917 in Achrafieh – 4 January 2016) was a Lebanese politician and diplomat.[1] He held several cabinet posts in the 1960s and 1970s.
Political career
[edit]He was first elected member of the Parliament of Lebanon in the 1960 Lebanese general election to one of the Greek Orthodox posts for Beirut.[2] Boutros served as defense minister two times: in 1966 and from 1976 to 1978.[3] He was appointed deputy prime minister in 1966, in 1968 and 1976-1982.[2] He was the minister of foreign affairs in the period between 1976 and 1982.[4][5]
Assassination attempt
[edit]On 1 November 1978, at the Saint Nicholas Church crossing in Achrafieh, Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militiamen ambushed the motorcade of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Minister Fouad Boutros, escorted by a commando detachment from the Counter-sabotage regiment (Arabic: Moukafaha). Four commandos were wounded and several others taken prisoner, including the commander of the escort, Lieutenant Kozhayya Chamoun, who subsequently disappeared without a trace while on KRF custody. The ambush was carried out in retaliation for the death of the pro-Phalangist Captain Samir el-Achkar, leader of the dissident Lebanese Army Revolutionary Command (LARC) and a close friend of Bashir Gemayel, during a raid by the Moukafaha commandos on his headquarters at Mtaileb in the Matn District earlier that same day.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "رحيل فؤاد بطرس السياسي اللبناني المخضرم". Al Sharq Al Awsat. 4 January 2016.
- ^ a b "One of Lebanon's last statesmen dies at 98". gulfnews.com.
- ^ "الوزراء المتعاقبون على وزارة الدفاع الوطني" [Successive ministers of the Ministry of National Defense] (in Arabic). Government of Lebanon. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ Sami E. Baroudi; Paul Tabar (2009). "Spiritual Authority versus Secular Authority: Relations between the Maronite Church and the State in Postwar Lebanon: 1990–2005". Middle East Critique. 18 (3): 200. doi:10.1080/19436140903237038.
- ^ "من هو فؤاد بطرس؟". Annahar Press. 4 January 2016.
- ^ Hokayem, L'armée libanaise pendant la guerre: un instrument du pouvoir du président de la République (1975-1985) (2012), p. 62.
External links
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Media related to Fouad Boutros at Wikimedia Commons- René Chamussy – Chronique d'une guerre, le Liban (1975-1977) (in French)
- Histoire militaire de l'armée libanaise de 1975 à 1990 (in French)
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