Word: bourj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Dr. Swee Ang, 40, a physician from Singapore who was working at the Sabra refugee camp for Palestinians in Beirut at the time of the 1982 massacre by Phalangist militiamen. After surviving the ordeal, she returned to Britain to marshal support for the Palestinians before resuming work at Bourj al-Barajneh, another refugee camp in Beirut. "I'd seen how the Palestinians had suffered," she says, "and to abandon them after that and not do something would have been a crime...
...Shiite-Palestinian fighting began as about 500 Palestinian women were returning to the Bourj el-Barajneh shantytown from a protest at which they demanded an end to the siege of refugee campus by end to the siege of refugee campus by gunmen of the Shiite militia Amal...
...have gone to west Beirut's Mar Elias camp, controlled by Druse militiamen, who have stayed neutral in the fighting around Bourj el-Barajneh and the nearby Chatilla camp...
Police said eight people were killed and 19 wounded in Friday's clashes with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades around Bourj el-Barajneh and Chatilla...
Palestinian spokesmen accused Amal of attacking Bourj el-Barajneh with mortars at midday, killing five children and wounding...