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BACKGROUND After months of skirmishes, the Syrian Army and Lebanese militias then aligned with Damascus (such as the Amal Movement and Hizbullah ) stormed the holdout of the military government of East Beirut, led by Gen. Michel Aoun , who had declared a "War of Liberation" against Syria earlier during the year. Aoun's forces were headquartered around the Presidential Palace in Ba'bda, Beirut . The Aounist areas were quickly overrun. While the main confrontation was clearly a military one, the attackers afterwards in many instances turned to plundering, and tens of Aounist army soldiers and civilians were summarily executed by Syrian forces or the militias, as they cemented their hold on the capital. The attack on the Aoun government marks the end of the Lebanese Civil War. Syria would Dominate the political life of the country for the following 15 years, under the auspices of the Taif Agreement . DEATH COUNT
Harris states that one hospital "received 73 bodies of Lebanese army soldiers, each executed at close range with a bullet in the lower right side of the skull" and that "15 civilians" were murdered "by the Syrians in the Bsus". He also connects the killing of National Liberal Party (NLP) leader Danny Chamoun to Syria. (p. 277) LITERATURE
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