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1975 Beirut bus massacre

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happened that day, with the Phalangists describing it as an act of self-defense by insisting that the bus carried armed ALF guerrilla reinforcements firing weapons. The Phalangists anticipated such a reaction by guarding the church, and in the ensuing shoot-out they claimed to have killed 14 Palestinian
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or SSNP, a rival Lebanese multi-confessional, pan-Syrian right-wing organization. The SSNP carried out the action in retaliation for the brutal clamp-down on their militants following their abortive coup attempt in the turn of 1961-62, orchestrated by the then Interior Minister Pierre Gemayel. As for
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to hand over to the authorities the Phalangist KRF militiamen responsible for the death of the Palestinian driver. Gemayel publicly refused however, hinting that he and his Party would no longer abide by the authority of the government. He later sent a Phalangist delegation on a mission to secure the
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However, none of these versions was ever substantiated by plausible evidence, and many began to doubt that the Palestinian PFLP was really responsible the earlier Church attack. Indeed, critics pointed to the all-too-obvious presence of civilian automobiles plastered with propaganda of that PLO
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Believing that the perpetrators were Palestinian guerrillas who carried the attack in retaliation for the earlier driver incident, and outraged by the audacity of the attempt on the life of their historical leader, the Phalangists planned an immediate response. Shortly after mid-day, a PLO bus
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The chain of events that led to the Ain el-Rammaneh church shooting and the subsequent "Bus massacre" (or "Black Sunday") of April 1975 have been the subject of intense speculation and heated debate in Lebanon since the end of the Civil War in 1990. There are two conflicting versions of what
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Therefore the true identity of the moral authors behind it – and particularly that of their faction or Party – remained shrouded in mystery until the late 1990s. New evidence that then came to light seems to confirm that they were not Palestinian
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At 10:30 a.m. when the congregation was concentrated outside the front door of the church upon the conclusion of the ceremony, a gang of unidentified gunmen approached in two civilian cars – rigged with posters and bumper stickers belonging to the
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release of the previously detained suspects held in custody by the Lebanese authorities, stating that the individuals involved in the incident were just defending themselves and that no charges could be pressed against them.
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the SSNP gunmen involved in the April 1975 drive-by shooting, they were never apprehended and apparently disappeared without a trace. Some unconfirmed reports suggest that they were later killed in action.
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and other Christian-populated eastern districts of the Lebanese Capital, stopping vehicles and checked identities, while in the mainly Muslim western sectors the Palestinian factions did likewise.
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The Church Massacre that preceded the bloody incident known as the "Bus Massacre," incited long-standing sectarian hatred and mistrust. It sparked heavy fighting throughout the country between
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Although most PLO accounts refute this version of the events by describing the bus passengers as civilian families' victims of an unprovoked attack and not fully armed guerrillas,
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faction and the tactic employed (a drive-by shooting), which did not fit well into the methods commonly used by the Palestinian guerrilla movements at the time.
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As news of the murders spread, armed clashes between PLO guerrilla factions and other Christian militias erupted throughout the Lebanese Capital. Soon
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of the ALF did confirm years later that some of them were off-duty members of that faction. Another high-ranking PLO official,
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all 28 passengers were killed, although other sources stated that 22 PLO members were shot dead by the Phalangists.
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Early in the morning of April 13, 1975, outside the Church of Notre Dame de la Delivrance at the predominantly
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The Church of Notre Dame de la Delivrance, in front of which took place the assassination attempt on
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1975 armed clashes between Phalangist and Palestinian organizations in Beirut, Lebanon
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militiamen took the streets, and began to set up roadblocks at
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along factional and sectarian lines for another 15 years.
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In the commotion that followed, armed Phalangist KRF and
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The recently appointed Lebanese prime-minister, the
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Among the dead caused by the drive-by shooting were
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Index

Lebanese Civil War

Beirut
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Organization
Kataeb Party
Pierre Gemayel
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Lebanese Civil War
Bus massacre
Black Thursday
Battle of the Hotels
ASALA insurgency
Black Saturday
Karantina massacre
Damour massacre
1976 Syrian intervention
Siege of Tel al-Zaatar
Chekka massacre
Aishiyeh massacre
Chouf massacres
St George's Church attack
Hundred Days' War
1978 South Lebanon conflict
Battle of Kaukaba
Ehden massacre
Qaa massacre
Battle of Qnat

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