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January 18th, 1976- Most of this area thirty or so years ago was controlled by the PLO forces. Karantina was a slum district that housed mostly Kurds and Armenians. The district became the focus of religious militias because of its strategic location near Beirut's port. In January of 1976, however, Christian forces with Syrian backing seized the area and killed hundreds (or thousands, no one is postive of the number). Survivors either fled or were forcibly moved to West Beirut.http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/900/910/912/maps/beirut/