Karantina massacre

Infobox civilian attack
title=Karantina massacre

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caption=Award winning photo taken by Françoise Demulder during the massacre. [ [http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=173&Itemid=115&bandwidth=high 1976 - World Press Photo ] ]
location=Beirut, Lebanon
target=Karantina district of Beirut
date=January 18, 1976
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fatalities=~1,000
injuries=
perps=Lebanese Christian forces
motive=Securing territory

The Karantina massacre took place during the Lebanese Civil War on January 18, 1976.

Karantina was a strategically situated slum district in Beirut controlled by forces from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), but inhabited mainly by Kurds and Armenians, as well as some Lebanese and Palestinian Muslims.

Karantina was overrun by the Lebanese Christian militias, resulting in the deaths of approx. 1,000 people. The fighting and subsequent killings also involved the nearby Maslakh quarter.

Estimates of the numbers of victims:

* "More than 1,000 people, fighters and civilians, were killed." [http://www.liberty05.com/civilwar/civil.html]
* Harris (p. 162) notes "the massacre of 1,500 Palestinians, Shi'is, and others in Karantina and Maslakh, and the revenge killings of hundreds of Christians in Damur".
* The number of victims as "more than 1,000 civilians". [http://www.111101.net/facts/history/chronology/phase.php?year=1976]
* "Up to 1,000 were killed" and also notes the connection to Damour. [http://www.laa.org/tours/thewar.htm]

See also

*List of massacres
*Damour massacre

Footnotes

Bibliography

* Chomsky, Noam (1989) "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies" South End Press, ISBN 0896083667
* Fisk, Robert (2001) "Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War" Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192801309,
* William Harris, (1996) "Faces of Lebanon. Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions" Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, USA ISBN 1558761152