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Jumblatt, Kamal
Born in 1917, in Mukhtara, Lebanon. Lebanese statesman, politician, and public figure. Jumblatt studied at higher educational institutions in Lebanon, Great Britain, and France, after which he worked as a journalist. He was elected a deputy of the Lebanese parliament in 1947 and has since frequently been a member of the government (1946-47, 1960-61, 1961-64, 1970). Jumblatt heads the Socialist Progressive Party of Lebanon, which he founded in 1949, and has supported the development of closer relations with the USSR. He has been a member of the Presidential Council of the Association for Lebanese-Soviet Friendship since 1970 and chairman of the National Committee for Afro-Asian Solidarity since 1958. In 1972, Jumblatt received the International Lenin Peace Prize. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | So let us team up on the need to get justice for our fellow Lebanese victims, and see their assassins in jail -- without a single exception -- from those who killed Kamal Jumblatt and kidnapped Musa al-Sadr to the murderers of Hariri and Samir Kassir. Christians remember only too well the reply Jumblatt's father, Kamal Jumblatt, gave to then Syrian president Hafez Al Assad at the start of the civil war when asked: "Why are you escalating the fighting? The paper presented a long list of Lebanese VIPs killed in that process, from the assassination of Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt in March 1977 - culminating in the murder of Hariri in February 2005 - to the bombing to death of March 14 Sunni MP Walid 'Eido and his son in June 2007. |
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