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:

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

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