Fifty years after Lebanon’s civil war, ex-fighters warn young people against violence • FRANCE 24

Five decades after the start of Lebanon’s civil war, veterans of the conflict are speaking out about their past role in the country’s warring militias and how they broke with their respective parties. With the threat of war ever present, they worry that young Lebanese – who do not learn the history of the conflict at school – will fall into the spiral of violence like they did. Our reporters Sophie Guignon and Chloé Domat went to meet them.
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17 comments
  1. No comment at all about Hezbollah's role on the situation the villagers find themselves in

  2. War didn’t “break out” between Hezbollah and Israel after the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks. Hezbollah attacked Israel…

  3. As a Lebanese-Palestinian Muslim the civil war didn’t solve any of our problems it only made it worst if the Lebanese people want change they must unite and topple this regime change the constitution

  4. Imagine open your door to people and accept them to your country for them to turn on you, kill you and take your country. Typical Muslim

  5. poor people ! imagine having USA USSR Israel Syria some Arab gulf countries couple European countries .. conspiring against them .. that war was inevitable .. Lebanese were only the fuel ..

  6. Lebanon was considered the Switzerland of the Middle East until 1970. Then the Palestinians arrived and did the only thing they knew how to do…

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