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#AWarThatNeverReallyEnded
Today 13Apr, marks 48 years since the start of the Lebanese civil war that took place from 1975 to 1990
A devastating war that was both an internal Lebanese affair and a regional conflict involving a host of regional and international actors
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#AWarThatNeverReallyEnded
Today 13Apr, marks 48 years since the start of the Lebanese civil war that took place from 1975 to 1990
A devastating war that was both an internal Lebanese affair and a regional conflict involving a host of regional and international actors
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The spark that ignited the war April 13, 1975, was when a right‐wing Lebanese party opened fire in Ain el-Remmaneh on a bus filled with Palestinian while they were on their way to a refugee camp in Lebanon killing 22 Palestinians.
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The attack escalated an intermittent cycle of violence into a more general battle between the Phalangists and the The Lebanese National Movement (LNM), a coalition of Lebanese leftists and Muslims supporting the PLO’s cause.
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