Bmaryam | |
Native Name: | بمريم |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lebanon |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Mount Lebanon |
Subdivision Name2: | Baabda District |
Coordinates: | 33.8286°N 35.7236°W |
Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
Bmaryam, also spelled Bmariam, is a village in Baabda District, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.[1]
During the Mountain War many of the Christians in the village fled due to fighting. On 1 September 1983, Druze militias entered the Syrian-controlled village and killed 39 of Christian civilians.[2] [3] The right-wing Phalangist-operated Voice of Lebanon radio station reported that the militias had "butchered about 40 elderly persons and children with knives, including the town’s priest, Gergis El-Rai," and that only one remaining Christian had survived.[4]