Qaa massacre

The Qaa massacre (Arabic: مجزرة القاع) took place on June 28 1978, four villages in Baalback were attacked Ras Baalback, Qaa, Fakiha and Jdeide.

Qaa Massacre
Part of the Lebanese Civil War
Victims of the massacre
LocationQaa, Lebanon
Date28 June 1978 (1978-06-28)
TargetKataeb members
Attack type
Massacre
DeathsApproximately 26 people
PerpetratorsRifaat al-Assad
MotiveRevenge for the murder of Tony Frangieh

The New York Times reported that the victims were believed to have taken part in the killing of 34 people two weeks ago in the northern town of Ehden. The report quotes Camille Chamoun as saying that the attack on the four villages was by “non-Lebanese, non-civilians” and that the gunmen entered the villages with lists of names. Phalangist radio reported forty people were kidnapped and twenty-six of them killed. The dead were reported to be members of the Phalangist Kataeb party and Chamoun’s National Liberal Party.[1]

Background

15 days earlier, Kataeb committed a massacre in Ehden, killing forty people including Tony Frangieh.[2]

References
  1. "Lebanese Christians Are Slain by Gunmen". The New York Times. 29 June 1978.
  2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308339533_The_Ehden_Massacre_of_1978_in_Lebanon_-_The_Creation_of_a_Resistance_Myth Behind a £35 paywall

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