Mount Lebanon polls stir memories of Civil War Government officials put 15 kilometers between Christian and Druze ballot boxes to avoid conflict between voters
The stone houses of Souk al-Gharb are gradually being restored. People are trickling back to the mountain resort overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean. But few who voted here Sunday forget being forced to flee by some of the fiercest battles of the 1975-1990 Civil War, which reduced their town to ruins.
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