Blood overlooked. (Lebanon) (International)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: October 27, 1990 | Copyright information

SAVAGERY like this makes even the Lebanese flinch. At dawn on October 20th masked gunmen broke into the East Beirut flat of Dany Chamoun, a Christian politician, and murdered him, his wife, and their two sons, aged six and seven. A baby daughter escaped. The killers probably did not see her.

To say that Dany Chamoun had enemies is an understatement. The son of a former president of Lebanon, Camille Chamoun, he had been close to the Israelis, and later backed the "crusade...

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