A demographic and statistical accounting of the Lebanese Civil War's human and economic cost, built by cross-checking parish, hospital and municipal records rather than repeating the round casualty figures that circulated in wartime press coverage.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Widely regarded in the later historiography as the most methodologically rigorous count of the war's dead available, precisely because it was built from documentary cross-checking rather than the impressionistic contemporary press estimates most general accounts still repeat. NotesWidely regarded in the later historiography as the most methodologically rigorous count of the war's dead available, precisely because it was built from documentary cross-checking rather than the impressionistic contemporary press estimates most general accounts still repeat.
Citation
AuthorBoutros Labaki and Khalil Abou Rjeily
PublisherL'Harmattan
Publication Year1993
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Wars & Conflicts, 4 claims: 3 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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