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On 30 January 1990 General Michel Aoun — self-styled ‘interim prime minister of the Christian government’, ensconded in the presidential palace in Baabda in the Christian enclave and controlling about 300 square miles, including most of East Beirut and districts to its east and north — ordered the Lebanese Forces militia, commanded by Samir Geaga, with whom Aoun was in conflict, to disarm, declaring that no one was permitted to carry arms except the Lebanese army, of which a large proportion, mainly Christian, expressed loyalty to him. Personnel at the Lebanese Defense HQ in Yarzeh (adjacent to Baabda) and many other elements of the Lebanese defence forces still regarded him as their legitimate commander.
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O’Ballance, E. (1998). The Closing Battles: 1990–91. In: Civil War in Lebanon, 1975–92. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374683_11
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