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European powers, led by France, pressured the Ottoman government into joint action once news of the killings spread, and an international commission of inquiry investigated both the Mount Lebanon fighting and the Damascus massacre. Ottoman authorities executed dozens of officials and participants found responsible, including subordinates of the Damascus governor, and paid reparations to survivors, an accountability process historian Eugene Rogan treats as the functional equivalent, for its era, of a modern war crimes tribunal.
The settlement remade Mount Lebanon's government outright: the double qaimaqamate was abolished in 1861 and replaced by the Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon, an autonomous Ottoman province governed by a Christian appointee under European guarantee, a confessional political structure that shaped Lebanese governance into the twentieth century. Rogan's own verdict on the killings, a genocidal moment but not a genocide, captures the caution both he and fellow historian Leila Fawaz bring to the episode: real sectarian violence, organized along confessional lines and driven partly by confessional identity itself, but neither reducible to religious hatred alone nor comparable in intent or organization to a twentieth century genocide.