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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.
Initially funded by Suleiman Frangieh's own personal fortune, the Al-Marada/ZLA also resorted to racketeering, with additional revenues being generated by the illegal ports of Chekka – Lebanon's industrial hub at the time – and Selaata, both located in the Batroun District, which were used for contraband of arms, agricultural goods and ...
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.
Lebanon has hundreds of registered political parties. After 2005, when the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri precipitated the Cedar Revolution , the political landscape became polarized between two rival alliances, the March 8 Alliance and the March 14 Alliance .
Not only had the Marada (and the Frangiehs) survived intact despite the loss of their Commander, but also succeeded in defeating and ruthlessly driving the KRF out of the Koura District of northern Lebanon. By the end of 1979, the Marada had kidnapped or slaughtered nearly 100 Kataeb Party' members and forced another 25,000 to flee the region ...
The Marada Movement, headed by Suleiman Frangieh Jr. in 1982, accused the Lebanese Forces of carrying out the Ehden massacre. [19] Bashir Gemayel argued that the massacre was a "social revolt against feudalism."
It is at this precise moment that the Lebanese National Resistance Front replaces the Lebanese National Movement, of which the SSNP and then the Marada Brigade will integrate. The September 14, 1982 Habib Shartouni , a pro-Syrian social-nationalist activist of the Maronite faith, detonated his homemade bomb located in his sister's apartment ...
Suleiman Frangieh, a deputy representing Zgharta in North Lebanon, posed as a conservative consensus candidate, gaining the support from both the left and right and across religious factions due to backlash from the 12 continuous years of reform from the Chehabist regimes. In what was possibly the most controversial presidential election in ...