Black Thursday (Arabic: الخميس الأسود, French: Jeudi noir) was the massacre of between 30 and 50 Lebanese Christians in the area of Bashoura in West Beirut on May 30, 1975. This massacre was one of the first of the widespread sectarian-based abductions, mutilations and executions that followed the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War.
Black Thursday (Arabic: الخميس الأسود, French: Jeudi noir) was the massacre of between 30 and 50 Lebanese Christians in the area of Bashoura in West Beirut on May 30, 1975. This massacre was one of the first of the widespread sectarian-based abductions, mutilations and executions that followed the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War.
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