Summary
Several hundred school students protested Thursday in Lebanon against what they described as an outdated curriculum that makes no mention of the multi-confessional country's 15-year Civil War.
History lessons in school textbooks stop with the withdrawal of French troops in 1946 -- three years after the end of France's 23-year mandate over Lebanon.
Likewise, textbooks make no mention of key events afterward, such as the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon in 2000 or the mass protests that ended Syria's military occupation in 2005 .
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