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According to a narrative, ʿAbd al-Karim al-Khalil, a Lebanese lawyer from Jabal ʿAmil, was calling for independence in his last statment before the stool was kicked and he was hanged in 1915 on the Sahat al-Burj in Beirut, today known as the Martyrs Square.
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Bonsen, S. (2020). Contextualizing the Emergence of Martyrs in Lebanon. In: Martyr Cults and Political Identities in Lebanon. Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28098-7_4
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