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==Further Damour victims==
==Further Damour victims==
"A quarter of its population of 40,000 were killed in the battle or massacred afterwards, and the remainder forced to flee."<ref>Russell, Lee E., Katz, Sam. Armies in Lebanon 1982-84. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CrHvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 Chapter 1, 'Background to Chaos'].<blockquote><font size=1><On 13 April 1975, in the midst of this explosive atmosphere, a busload of PLO gunmen opened fire on a church in the Christian Ain Rammanah section of Beirut. Pierre Gemayel, leader of tbe Christian Phalange Party and one of the most powerful men in Maronite Lebanon, was present for a family baptism. His bodyguard returned fire, and the lighting escalated. The next day all hell broke loose in Lebanon.
"A quarter of its population of 40,000 were killed in the battle or massacred afterwards, and the remainder forced to flee."<ref>Russell, Lee E., Katz, Sam. Armies in Lebanon 1982-84. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CrHvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 Chapter 1, 'Background to Chaos'].<blockquote><font size=1>On 13 April 1975, in the midst of this explosive atmosphere, a busload of PLO gunmen opened fire on a church in the Christian Ain Rammanah section of Beirut. Pierre Gemayel, leader of tbe Christian Phalange Party and one of the most powerful men in Maronite Lebanon, was present for a family baptism. His bodyguard returned fire, and the lighting escalated. The next day all hell broke loose in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Civil War, 1975–76
The Lebanese Civil War, 1975–76