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Conflict Incident Report

Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement students brawl at USJ campus in Beirut

Date of incident: 
October 10, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Forces (LF)
Free Patriotic Movement

The Internal Security Forces had to intervene to break up a fight that broke out Wednesday at a Beirut university between supporters of Lebanon’s two biggest Christian parties, the Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Brawl/Dispute
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.