Etienne Saqr

Étienne Saqr
Étienne Saqr
إتيان صقر
Personal details
Born	1937 (age 86–87); Ain Ebel, Greater Lebanon
Political party	Guardians of the Cedars
Children	Karol Sakr; Pascale Sakr; Arez Sakr
Residence(s)	Nicosia, Cyprus
Military service
Years of service	1975–2000
Battles/wars	1958 Lebanon crisis Lebanese Civil War South Lebanon conflict

Étienne Saqr (Arabic: إتيان صقر; born on 26 December 1937; last name also spelt Sakr), also known by his kunya "Abu Arz” (Arabic: أبو أرز, lit. 'Father of the Cedar'), is a Lebanese nationalist leader and founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party (حراس الأرز, Ḥurrās al-ʿArz in Arabic). Saqr and his militia participated in the Lebanese Civil War in the 1970s and 1980s, and remained militantly active until he was expelled from the country with the flight of the South Lebanon Army, of which he was not a member, in May 2000.^[1]

^ Mordechai Nisan. "Dossier: Etienne Saqr (Abu Arz), Head of the Guardians of the Cedars". Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. Archived from the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2008.

[nisan-1] Mordechai Nisan. "Dossier: Etienne Saqr (Abu Arz), Head of the Guardians of the Cedars". Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. Archived from the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2008.

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