Knights of Ali
The 'Knights of Ali' (Arabic: فرسان علي | Fityan Ali) was an obscure Shia militia that used to operate at West Beirut and a member of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) in the mid-1970s. In May 1975, the group was responsible for the massacre and mutilation of 50 Christians, whose severed genitalia were placed in their mouths and whose bodies were left in a cemetery at the mainly Muslim Beirut district of Bashoura. Regarded as a mere criminal street gang, the 'Knights of Ali' disappeared around the late 1970s or early 1980s and nothing has been heard of them since.
References
- Michael Johnson, All honourable men: the social origins of war in Lebanon, Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford and London, Oxford University and I.B. Tauris, 2001. ISBN 978-1860647154, 1860647154
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