Damour massacre
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The Damour massacre took place on 20 January 1976, during the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War. Damour, a Maronite Christian town on the main highway south of Beirut, was attacked by left-wing militants of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and as-Sa'iqa. Many of its people died in battle or in the massacre that followed, and the others were forced to flee.[2] According to Robert Fisk, the town was the first to be subject to ethnic cleansing in the Lebanese Civil War.[3] The massacre was in retaliation to the Karantina massacre by the Phalangists.[4]
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Part of the Lebanese Civil War | |
Location | Damour, Lebanon |
Coordinates | 33°44′N 35°27′E |
Date | 20 January 1976; 48 years ago (1976-01-20) |
Attack type | Massacre |
Deaths | 150–582[1] |
Perpetrators | Palestine Liberation Organization |
Motive | Anti-Christian sentiment, revenge for the Karantina massacre |
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