☠Assassination of Hussein Mroueh, then Mahdi Amel

On 17 February 1987 the communist thinker Hussein Mroueh was killed in his home, and on 18 May the philosopher Mahdi Amel (Hassan Hamdan) was assassinated in West Beirut; the two crimes were attributed to the conflict between the Communist Party and the Islamic forces in West Beirut, and became the symbol of the liquidation of the left.