Kataeb leader Samy Gemayel wrote on "X" platform: "On the 24th of April every year, we commemorate the Ottoman massacres against the Christians of the East and the inhabitants of Mount Lebanon. We remember to preserve the collective memory of peoples who were persecuted but remained steadfast with their heads held high. We remember so that the world recognizes these crimes and for them to serve as a deterrent lesson to every sick expansionist thought."

"The Armenian genocide, the Seyfo massacres, and the organized famine of Mount Lebanon, which claimed the lives of half of its resilient inhabitants, are all crimes that will remain a stigma on the forehead of those who committed them, but also a source of pride for the peoples who suffered from them," he noted.

The Great Famine of 1915-1918, was a period of mass starvation during World War I, leading to an estimation of 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in Mount Lebanon while its population at the time was about 400,000, meaning that half of its people died.

The Assyrian or Syriac genocide, also known as Sayfo or Seyfo which means "sword" in Syriac, refers to the mass slaughter of the Syriac Christian population of the Ottoman Empire and those in neighboring Persia by Ottoman troops during the First World War.

The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire.