Act for the Disappeared, Lebanon, Karantina - Testimony of Abu Mhamad:

We’ve been residents of this area for a while, since the 1300s when our ancestors used to live here. In 1975, the civil war started. Up until 1975 and the beginning of the war, we did not know who was Muslim and who was Christian. Honestly, I swear to God. When the Christian holidays came around, we used to celebrate with them. We were young and we used to join the other kids and eat sweets and they used to celebrate our holidays with us.

A lot of people died from our end and a lot of people also died from the other side. They retreated to their areas and so did we and for what? On that day, a lot of people died. They dug a big hole and they buried them all at once. Their bodies were never returned to their families; neither my brother’s body nor my aunt’s body nor my grandmother’s body were ever returned or even found. No one ever returned. If they dug up holes in the area for construction purposes and found bones, I’m certain that they reburied them again. There is a lot of desecration here.