Qualla: Ehden Massacre https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ehden Massacre https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre Ehden Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre/ Tony Frangieh's car would not start. That mechanical failure, on a Tuesday in June 1978, undid the one assumption on which the entire operation depended. The Kataeb commandos heading up the mountain road to Ehden had planned their raid for a Tuesday specifically because Tony -- eldest son of former Lebanese president Suleiman Frangieh, leader of the rival Marada militia -- was expected to have left his summer house by then. He had not. What was meant to be a punitive raid to capture militia members became something far worse.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/e/ehden-massacre-wp/sy1e-ehden-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ehden Massacre: Clans at War Within a War https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre/ The Lebanese Civil War, which erupted in 1975 and would grind on until 1990, is often described in terms of Christians against Muslims, left against right. The Ehden massacre shattered that framing. Both sides were Maronite Christians. The Frangieh family, based in the northern t...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/e/ehden-massacre-wp/sy1e-ehden-massacre-clans-at-war-within-a-war.mp3 0:06 2 full Ehden Massacre: The Trigger and the Raid https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre/ The immediate spark was the killing of Joud El Bayeh, a senior Kataeb member, on June 7, 1978. Armed men sent by Tony Frangieh shot El Bayeh when he attempted to open a Phalangist political office in Zgharta -- the Frangieh family's stronghold. The Lebanese Forces decided to reta...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/e/ehden-massacre-wp/sy1e-ehden-massacre-the-trigger-and-the-raid.mp3 0:06 3 full Ehden Massacre: What Happened at the Summer House https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre/ Tony Frangieh, his wife Vera (born el Kordahi), their three-year-old daughter Jihane, and some thirty Marada bodyguards and aides were killed in the raid. More than ten Kataeb gunmen also died. Suleiman Frangieh -- Tony's father, the former president -- later claimed that the Pha...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/e/ehden-massacre-wp/sy1e-ehden-massacre-what-happened-at-the-summer-house.mp3 0:06 4 full Ehden Massacre: Revenge, Impunity, and a Long Road to Reconciliation https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre/ The aftermath was swift and brutal. Syrian troops stormed Deir el Ahmar, a village 15 miles southeast of Ehden, searching for the perpetrators the next day. Marada forces launched revenge killings and kidnappings. On June 28, Marada allies carried out the Qaa massacre, killing 26...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/e/ehden-massacre-wp/sy1e-ehden-massacre-revenge-impunity-and-a-long-road-to-reconciliation.mp3 0:06 5 full Ehden Massacre: The Feudal Reality https://qualla.com/ehden-massacre/ The historian and travel writer William Dalrymple concluded that the Ehden massacre revealed, more clearly than any other event, the medieval feudal reality behind the civilized twentieth-century veneer of Lebanese politics. The families, the clans, the blood debts -- these were ...

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