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Conflict Incident Report
Christian civilians killed and displaced in Chouf
Associated Timeline/Case:
The Two-Year War | February, 1975 to December, 1976
Date of incident:
October 28, 1976
Death toll:
16persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Progressive Socialist Party (PSP)
Fourteen Christian civilians, including a family of eight, were summarily executed by PSP members in Maasser Beit Eddine. That same day, two other Christians in the same region were killed by Druze gunmen and their bodies thrown on the road. “The forced displacement was being done in a systematic manner from one zone of the Mountain (Shuf ) to another.”
Primary category:
Murder
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