#Lebanon’s #civil_war : The scars that remain
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A woman looking for her children in the aftermath of a powerful bomb that blew up in Tariq al-Jdideh in the mid 1980s. (Photo: Khalil Duhaini) A woman looking for her children in the aftermath of a powerful bomb that blew up in Tariq al-Jdideh in the mid 1980s. (Photo: Khalil Duhaini)
Thirty-nine years ago armed militias crept behind stone walls, snipers crouched on rooftops, and barricades invaded the streets of #Lebanon, commencing a war that lasted for 15 years and claimed the lives of up to 170,000 people. Over a quarter of the country’s population was left wounded and displaced.
Rana Harbi
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