What the records say
- When
- 18 Jan 1976
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 1,500
- Coordinates
- 33.90° N, 35.53° E
- Description
- Massacre during the Lebanese Civil War
Karantina massacre
Massacre during the Lebanese Civil War
The Karantina massacre took place on 18 January 1976, early in the Lebanese Civil War. La Quarantine, known in Arabic as "Karantina", was a Muslim-inhabited district in mostly Christian East Beirut controlled by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Lebanese National Movement (LNM), and inhabited by Palestinians, Kurds, Armenians, Syrians, and Lebanese Muslims.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les milices chrétiennes prennent d’assaut le camp palestinien de la Quarantaine à l’Est de Beyrouth, qui est incendié et pillé le lendemain ; la population est…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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