1. Dany Chamoun was a prominent Lebanese politician.
15 Facts About Dany Chamoun
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Dany Chamoun was murdered on October 21,1990 at age 56, along with his family.
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Dany Chamoun was born in Deir el-Qamar on 26 August 1934.
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Dany Chamoun was the younger son of former Lebanese President Camille Chamoun.
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Dany Chamoun studied civil engineering in the United Kingdom at Loughborough University.
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Dany Chamoun reported that he had not had any interest in politics before the Lebanese Civil War.
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Dany Chamoun became the National Liberal Party Secretary of Defense in January 1976, after the death of his predecessor Naim Berdkan.
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Dany Chamoun's life was spared, and he fled to the Sunni Muslim-dominated West Beirut.
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Dany Chamoun served as General Secretary of the National Liberal Party from 1983 to 1985, when he replaced his father as the party leader.
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Dany Chamoun declared his strong support for Michel Aoun, who had been appointed by the outgoing president to lead an interim administration and went on to lead one of two rival governments that contended for power over the next two years.
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Dany Chamoun strongly opposed the Taif Agreement, which not only gave a greater share of power to the Muslim community than they had enjoyed previously, but more seriously, in Chamoun's opinion, formalized what he saw as the master-servant relationship between Syria and Lebanon, and refused to recognize the new government of the President Elias Hrawi, who was elected under the Taif Agreement.
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On January 18,1976 Dany Chamoun was one of the militia commanders that participated in the Karantina Massacre, Chamoun conducted an interview after the massacre in which he denied that it was a massacre, instead referring to it as a "concise military operation" aimed at reclaiming private property.
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On June 28,1976 Dany Chamoun led the attack on Tal el-Zaatar palestinian camp which resulted in a significant loss of life and displacement of Palestinian refugees.
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Dany Chamoun was survived by his two daughters Tracy and Tamara, eleven months old at the time of the massacre.
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Dany Chamoun was sentenced to death commuted to life in prison with hard labour.