Brief Background:

The Lebanese Forces militia was originally formed by merging several Christian groups at the end of the1970's to counter the rising Syrian and Palestinian power. However, Samir Geagea who led several battles before and after he assumed its full leadership turned his militia into an uncontrolled power, occupying a small Christian region of Lebanon and forcing its residents to submit to his authority. He turned against any Christian leader who opposed his authority, and led a series of destructive wars causing the displacement of 200,000 citizens until this very day.

Geagea's atrocities included murder, village destruction, displacing villagers, execution of arrested citizens, massacring families, drug and weapon dealing, money laundering, and finally burying nuclear wastes in the mountains of his controlled region in exchange for cash. His crimes did not spare Muslims, Christians or Druze.

On October 13, 1990, Samir Geagea's militia supported with artillery bombing the Syrian invasion of Beirut, which led to the fall of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense and the Lebanese Presidential Palace. Along with the massacres committed against the Lebanese Armed Forces and civilians that day, Geagea's militia celebrated with gun shots and fireworks the defeat of the Lebanese Armed Forces and subsequent Syrian control of Lebanon. A few days later, Geagea assassinated his main political opponent Dany Chamoun and his family.