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The '''October 13 Massacre''' took place on 13 October 1990, during the final period of the [[Lebanese Civil War]], when hundreds of Lebanese soldiers were executed after they surrendered to Syrian forces.<ref>''The Middle East enters the twenty-first century'', By Robert Owen Freedman, Baltimore University 2002, page 214</ref>
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After months of skirmishes, the [[Military of Syria|Syrian Army]] and Lebanese militias then aligned with Damascus (mainly the [[Progressive Socialist Party]] and the [[Amal movement]]) backed up by [[Lebanese Forces]] artillery {{Citation needed|date=September 2012}} stormed the holdout of the military government of East Beirut, led by [[Gen.]] [[Michel Aoun]], who had declared a "War of Liberation" against Syria earlier during the year, and had just escaped a mysterious assassination attempt the previous day. Aoun's forces were headquartered around the Presidential Palace in Ba'bda, Beirut. The Aounist areas were quickly overrun.
The attack on the Aoun government marks the end of the Lebanese Civil War. Syria would [[Syrian occupation of Lebanon|dominate]] the political life of the country for the following 15 years, under the auspices of the [[Taif Agreement]].
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* [http://www.liberty05.com/civilwar/civil5.html Lebanese Civil war 13 October 1990 at 7:00 a.m] The Syrian Forces invaded the Eastern areas which support the Lebanese Army. An estimated 700 people were killed by the Syrian forces that day and 2000 had been injured. Estimates of the Lebanese Army losses during the battle, of whom a proportion were executed by the Syrians and including Prisoners of War as between 400 to 500 soldiers. It was also reported <ref>http://www.liberty05.com/civilwar/civil5.html</ref> that at least 200 supporters of General Aoun, most of them military personnel, were arrested by the Syrian forces in east Beirut and its suburbs, these men simply disappeared. At least 15 civilians were executed by Syrian soldiers in Bsous after having been rounded up from their homes.
*[http://www.liberty05.com/civilwar/civil5.html Pictures from the Lebanese Civil War October 13] More than 300 tanks attacked the Christian region in Mount Lebanon and Beirut.
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* William Harris, ''Faces of Lebanon. Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions'' (Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, USA 1996)
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