Black Saturday (Lebanon)
| Black Saturday Massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Lebanese Civil War | |
| Location | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Coordinates | 33°44′N 35°27′E / 33.733°N 35.450°E |
| Date | 6 December 1975 |
| Target | Lebanese Muslims, Druze and Palestinians in Lebanon |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Deaths | 200+ killed[1] |
| Perpetrators |  Kataeb Party |
Black Saturday (Arabic: السبت الأسود; French: Samedi noir) was the massacre of about 300 Lebanese Muslims and Druze in Beirut by Phalangists on Saturday 6 December 1975, during the early stages of the Lebanese Civil War.[2][3][4] It set a precedent for later outbreaks such as the Battle of the Hotels, the Karantina massacre and the Damour massacre.[4]
The killings were led by Joseph Saade, a Phalangist whose son was killed in Fanar earlier that day, when four young Christian Phalangists (Kataeb) were found murdered on the Fanar road in Lebanon.[5]
The massacre set Beirut ablaze, and accelerated the rapidly escalating civil war.[2]
References
- ^ Lebanese Civil War 6 December 1975 Saturday. Website liberty05. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
- ^ a b Tamimova, May (2018). "The Black Saturday Massacre of 1975: the discomfort of assembling the Lebanese civil war narrative". Contemporary Levant. 3 (2): 123–136. doi:10.1080/20581831.2018.1531531.
- ^ "Lebanon - The Early Stages of Combat". www.country-data.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ a b May Tamimova (2018) The Black Saturday Massacre of 1975: the discomfort of assembling the Lebanese civil war narrative, Contemporary Levant, 3:2, 123-136, DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2018.1531531
- ^ Venter, Al J. (19 October 2010). Barrel of a Gun: A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments in Combat. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-61200-032-9.
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