M.U.R.

M.U.R. poster

M.U.R., which stands for Mouvements Unis de la Résistance ^[1] (French for Unified Movements of the Resistance), was a Lebanese clandestine liberation armed group fighting Lebanon's occupation by foreign armies in the 1990s, after the Lebanese civil war was officially ended.

M.U.R. was founded in 1991 by Michel Elefteriades who led it until 1994. It was instigated after General Michel Aoun's defeat by the Syrian army that took control of most of Lebanon's territory. In that context, M.U.R. was an illegal organization ^[2] as Lebanon's regime was under Syrian dominion. Its main principles and objectives were:

• Freeing the Lebanese territory from all foreign military presence
• Rejecting feudalism and political sectarianism in order to establish a secular democracy
• Struggling to achieve social justice
• Edifying a modern, independent and sovereign state within Lebanon’s internationally recognized boundaries
• Respecting and implementing the International Bill of Human Rights
• Fighting collaboration, treason and corruption
• Advocating the recovery of the Lebanese Army's authority over all of the land

Michel Elefteriades talking about M.U.R. on one of the leading TV shows in Lebanon^[3]

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