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Damour massacre

20 January 1976 · Lebanon

Part of: Lebanese Civil War

Wikidata classes on our event-class list: massacre (all its classes: Wikidata item)

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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 militants of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and as-Sa'iqa. Many residents were killed or forced to flee. According to Robert Fisk, the town was the first to be subject to ethnic cleansing in the Lebanese Civil War. The attack was retaliation for the Karantina massacre by the Phalangists.

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