updated Sat. March 16, 2024
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Asharq Al-awsat English
March 2, 2018
Damascus and Tehran get rid of their opponents via murder and intimidation. In Lebanon, they assassinated Bachir Gemayel, Kamal Jumblat, Rafik Hariri, George Hawi, Samir Kassir and Gebran Tueni, and badly injured May Chidiac. Riyadh has interests in, and well-established ties with, Lebanon and theÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
November 9, 2017
Among those who met their fate for not towing the Assad line were prominent dissidents as Samir Kassir and George Hawi, and former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri (the father of Saad Hariri). Saad Hariri gestures as he talks at the governmental palace in Beirut on August 10, 2017. (Reuters)Ãâà...
The National
September 30, 2017
The tribunal is also investigating the 2005 assassination of Lebanese politician George Hawi, as well as attacks on two other Lebanese politicians the same year that the tribunal believes are linked to Rafik Hariri's killing. The tribunal has yet to issue any indictments in those cases. Though the divisions theÃâà...
gulfnews.com
June 25, 2016
That same year, the LCP experienced a power struggle when Karim Mroue, a Shiite, challenged George Hawi for the leadership post. Hawi prevailed but was assassinated on June 21, 2005 probably for his sharp criticisms of Syrian occupation. Interestingly, the LCP was probably one of least sectarianÃâà...
The National
June 4, 2014
Within a few months, other critics of the Syrian government were killed: Gebran Tueni, Pierre Gemayel, George Hawi. Kassir's murder – like that of Rafik Hariri and the others named – has never been solved, but it was widely assumed that Syrian security services, or their supporters in Lebanon, were behindÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
January 18, 2014
The assassins were neither from Israel, nor Salafists, and personal causes were not the reasons behind the assassinations; Hariri's killers are the ones who killed Gebran Tueni, Samir Kassir, George Hawi, Walid Eido and dozens of political leaders and intellectuals. All those who were killed were from theÃâà...
The Independent
January 15, 2014
For not once has anyone been imprisoned for political murder in Lebanon since the foundation of the state well over 60 years ago. Not after a fair trial, at any rate. President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Christian leader Dany Chamoun, President Rene Moawad, MP Pierre Gemayel Jnr, Samir Kassir, George HawiÃâà...
BBC News
June 23, 2005
George Hawi - former Communist Party leader and an opponent of Syria - died when his car blew up as he drove through the Wata Musaitbi district. The attack follows the anti-Syrian bloc's victory in elections, the first since Syria ended a 29-year occupation. Damascus' withdrawal followed protests andÃâà...
New York Times
June 23, 2005
George Hawi, the former head of the Communist Party who had been campaigning for opposition candidates in the final round of elections last Sunday, died after being ripped apart by a small but deadly bomb. Only about a pound of explosives was used, the police said, placed beneath the passenger seatÃâà...
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