Bmaryam


Bmariam, also spelled Bmaryam, is a village in Baabda District, Mount [Lebanon Governorate], Lebanon.

History

During the Mountain [War (Lebanon)|Mountain War] many of the Christians in the village fled due to fighting. On 1 September 1983, People's [Liberation Army (Lebanon)|Druze militias] entered the Syrian-controlled village and killed 39 of Christian civilians. The right-wing Phalangist-operated Voice of Lebanon radio station reported that the militias had "butchered about 40 elderly persons and children with knives, including the town’s priest, Gergis El-Rai," and that only one remaining Christian had survived.