It is believed that the Phalangists considered it retaliation for Gemayel's assassination and for the Damour massacre which PLO fighters had committed earlier in a Christian town.

According to The Guardian, he was deeply influenced by the massacre of much of his family and of his fiancée by Palestinian militiamen at the Damour massacre of 1976.

* Damour massacre

The Palestinian PLO and al-Saiqa forces retaliated by attacking the isolated defenseless Christian town of Damour about 20 miles south of Beirut on the coast, during the Damour massacre in which 1, 000 Christian civilians were killed and 5, 000 were sent fleeing north by boat, since all roads were blocked off.

The Damour massacre was a response to the Karantina massacre of January 18, 1976, in which Phalangists killed from 300 up to 1, 500 people.

According to Thomas L. Friedman, the Phalangist Damouri Brigade, which carried out the Sabra and Shatila massacre during the 1982 Lebanon War sought revenge not only for the assassination of Bashir Gemayel, but also for what he describes as past tribal killings of their own people by Palestinians, including those at Damour.

Damour, a Christian town on the main highway south of Beirut, was attacked by the Palestine Liberation Organisation units.

Cedarland. org names Zuheir Mohsen, leader of as-Sa ' iqa, a Damascus-based Palestinian faction operating directly on Syrian orders, and claims that he was known in Lebanon as the " Butcher from Damour ".

* Lebanese Civil War 1975 – 1976 Includes pictures of the Syrian-formed and-sponsored groups ( Yarmouk and Sai ' qa ) attacking Damour city ( January 1976 ).

As Saiqa was as well responsible of the Damour Massacre in 1976 and many other barbaric mass murders ..

* Damour Massacre ( 1976 )

On 21 April 1982, after a landmine killed an Israeli officer while he was visiting a South Lebanese Army gun emplacement in Taibe, Lebanon, the Israeli Air Force attacked the Palestinian-controlled coastal town of Damour, killing 23 people.

are Louis Michel, Jürg Fröhlich, David Ruelle, Thibault Damour, Nikita Nekrasov.

The PLO and LNM retaliated by attacking the town of Damour, a Phalangist stronghold.

He earned acceptance into the law school at the Sorbonne but, unable to support himself financially, he left after just 18 months to seek work as a copywriter at Publicité Damour.

While he was a child, Delaunay's parents divorced, and he was raised by his mother's sister Marie and her husband Charles Damour, in La Ronchère near Bourges.

Following this, the division concentrated around Jezzine before advancing towards Damour.

Lieutenant Arthur Roden Cutler, of the 2 / 5th Field Regiment, received the decoration for his exploits in June at Merdjayoun and in early July in the Damour area where he was seriously wounded.

Despite suffering heavy casualties in Syria, the 2 / 2nd Pioneer Battalion served throughout the campaign, including participation in the decisive Battle of Damour in July.

The Phalangist militia based in Damour and Dayr al Nama had been blocking the coastal road.

Following the Battle of Tel al-Zaatar later the same year, the PLO resettled Palestinian refugees in Damour.

After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Zaatar refugees were expelled from Damour, and the original inhabitants brought back.

His Ph. D. students included Thierry Aubin, Marcel Berger, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Yvette Kosmann, and Thibault Damour.

Located south-east of Beirut, the region comprises a narrow coastal strip notable for the Christian town of Damour, and the valleys and mountains of the western slopes of Jabal Barouk, the name of the local Mount Lebanon massif.

In his youth he took part in the so-called " massacre of the ditch ", when from 700 to 5, 000 people come to pay homage to the princes who were killed by order of Al-Hakam.

On 16 March 1244, a large and symbolically important massacre took place, where over 200 Cathar Perfects were burnt in an enormous fire at the prat dels cremats near the foot of the castle.

While Irenaeus was in Rome, a massacre took place in Lyons.

The massacre took place at night and with bayonets.

Munich was the site of the 1972 Summer Olympics, during which Israeli athletes were assassinated by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre, when gunmen from the Palestinian " Black September " terrorist group took hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team.

The dreams were actually memories of a great massacre that took place on the Enaran homeworld, and were the elder Enaran's method of making sure that the memory of this massacre lives on, even if in the mind of an alien.

* The Tlatelolco massacre – was a government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.

* April 11 – The Kiryat Shmona massacre took place in Israel.

An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa " almost certainly " took part in the massacre.

The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre took place on February 25, 1994 when Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli physician and resident of Kiryat Arba, opened fire on Muslims at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29, and wounding 125 before the survivors overcame and killed him.

Benjamin Franklin, who had negotiated with the Indians during the French and Indian War, protested vehemently against the Paxton massacre that took place at Conestoga, in western Pennsylvania, of December 1763, in which white vigilantes massacred Indian women and children, many of whom had converted to Christianity.

On 17 October 1791 a massacre of royalists and religious figures took place in the ice storage rooms ( glaciere ) of the prison of the Palace of the Popes in Avignon.

Richard Fuchs, author of An Unerring Fire, concludes, “ The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conduct – intentional murder – for the vilest of reasons – racism and personal enmity .” Andrew Ward downplays the controversy, “ Whether the massacre was premeditated or spontaneous does not address the more fundamental question of whether a massacre took place ... it certainly did, in every dictionary sense of the word .” John Cimprich states, “ The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation ...

The actual massacre took place in streets nearby, not on the steps themselves, but the film caused many to visit Odessa to see the site of the " slaughter ".

After the murder of de Coligny during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, the Duke of Alba took control of Mons in September 1572 in the name of the Catholic King of Spain.

* January 17, 1989: Cleveland School massacre of Stockton, California where 5 school children were killed and 30 wounded by a single gunman firing over 100 rounds into a schoolyard from an AK-47, in which the perpetrator later took his life.

The massacre took place in the hamlets of My Lai and My Khe of Son My village.

The Le Paradis massacre took place that day, when the 3.

The massacre on the steps, which never took place, was presumably inserted by Eisenstein for dramatic effect and to demonise the Imperial regime.

The Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco ( from a book title by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska ), was the killing of student and civilian protesters as well as bystanders by Mexican government employees that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.

Papon was in charge of the Paris police during the February 1962 massacre at the Charonne metro station, which took place during a peaceful anti-Organisation armée secrète ( OAS ) demonstration organized by the Communist Party ( PCF ).