Talk:Lebanese Resistance Regiments

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War of the Flag

I am putting this paragraph here because I am going to drop the description of the trigger of the War of the Flag. The reference, which I am unable to access, was published a quarter of a century after the event. The date given is the date contemporary reports give as when the Syrian commandos moved into West Beirut. Which came after a week of fighting, twenty people killed, and Amal “chased out of West Beirut”. (“other Lebanese used to fear the Amal gunmen, now they simply loath them.”) Somewhere I think I saw a reference to an incident between Amal and the Communists as being the trigger. Maybe it is linked to the Radio station/flag incident described. Also I haven’t seen any other mention of “War of the Flag”. In the context of Beirut a weeks fighting with 20 killed doesn’t qualify as a “War”.

On February 22, 1987, Amal and the Druze PLA again turned against each other in what became known as the "War of the Flag". The conflict was sparked by an incident early that day, when a PLA fighter walked to the Channel 7 TV station (French: Télé Liban – Canal 7) building in the Tallet el-Khayyat quarter and replaced the Lebanese national flag hoisted there by the PSP flag, which was interpreted by Amal militiamen as a deliberate act of provocation. A new round of brutal fighting soon spread throughout western Beirut, and although Amal forces initially managed to restore the Lebanese national flag on the Channel 7 building, they were subsequently overpowered by an alliance of PLA, LCP/Popular Guard and SSNP militias, who quickly seized large portions of West Beirut. Eventually, the fighting was curbed by the massive deployment at West Beirut of Syrian troops under the command of Major-General Ghazi Kanaan, assisted by Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) gendarmes.

Padres Hana (talk) 13:17, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Second thoughts. I have found this in Tveit/Goodbye Lebanon:

The mini-war between the Druze militia and Amal in West Beirut began when Walid Jumblatt gave orders to remove the Lebanese flag from that part of the city. He wanted to fly the Druze flag, with each of its five colours commemorating one of their five prophets. “The War of the Two Flags” raged in the heart of West Beirut. etc p.158

Padres Hana (talk) 22:43, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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