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The Marada Movement (Arabic: تيار المردة, romanized: Tayyār Al-Marada) is a Lebanese political party and a former militia active during the Lebanese Civil War named after the legendary Marada (also called Mardaites) warriors of the early Middle Ages that fought on the external edge of the Byzantine Empire.
Thanks to the secret support provided by the Lebanese Army, [7] by January 1976 the Frangieh-controlled militia ranks had swollen to 2,400 troops, a total comprising 800 full-time fighters and 1,500 irregulars. At its height in the late 1970s, the Al-Marada mustered some 3,500 men and women equipped with modern small-arms. [8]
For many years, while Michel Aoun was and exiled in Paris and on 14 July 1994, he established the Free Patriotic Movement in what he called "The National Conference". He returned to Lebanon on 7 May 2005 after the Cedar Revolution forced the withdrawal of the Syrian forces, and then contested the legislative elections held in late May in early June although it placed him on the head of the ...
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Marada forces also carried out a series of revenge killings and kidnappings. [10] In the following period the Phalange members in the area were displaced and nearly 100 of them were killed. [ 17 ] On 28 June 1978, Marada allies responded with another massacre known as the Qaa massacre which resulted in the death of 26 Phalangists.
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Suleiman Antoine Frangieh (Arabic: سليمان أنطوان فرنجية; born 18 October 1965) is a Lebanese politician.He is the incumbent leader of the Marada Movement, [1] and a former Member of the Lebanese Parliament for the Maronite seat of Zgharta–Zawyie, in North Lebanon.