The civil war that has raged throughout Lebanon for the past 10 yearsa civil war which has its roots dating back several centurieshas left Lebanon a fragmented. chaotic land ruled by the gun. not the law. Although the fighting has touched every religious and ethnic group within the country in an adverse way. the Christian community has suffered tremendously at the hands of Muslim miltiamen and Palestinian terrorists. There are now over 478.000 Christian refugees of a total of 1 % million Lebanese Christians. 4.460 Christians killed. 202 Christian villages razed. and almost 400 schools and hospitals destroyed. Much of the trouble besseting the Maronites and other Christians has occurred In south Lebanon. where the Christians have established a thin buffer zone called Free South Lebanon. The population of this buffer zone has been swelled by Christians streaming in from their historic towns and villages along the west coast of southern Lebanon near the cities of Tyre and Sidon. driven there by heavy fighting over the last decade involving Shiite.
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