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On This Day: 17 September 1982: Refugees Massacred in Beirut Camps URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/17/newsid_2519000/2519637.stm Description: Background about the 1982 event known as the Sabra and Shatila massacres, where "[m]ore than 1,000 people [were] feared to have been killed during a 24-hour rampage by Lebanese militia in West Beirut. ... The massacre was apparently revenge for the assassination four days [previously] of the Christian President-elect, Bashir Gemayel." Provides a timeline with related events concerning Israel, Lebanon, and the Middle East. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). LII Topics: Lebanon, Politics by Place Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) LII Database Information: Record 24425 created by Jennifer English on 09/05/2007 Last modification on 09/10/2007 Published: 09/12/2007 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24425 |
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