Lebanese Civil War began 50 years ago. Here’s how one photographer saw it | History

On this day in 1975, Claude Salhani was a 23-year-old Lebanese photojournalist working for the Annahar newspaper.

At the time, he dreamed of going to Vietnam and taking the kind of powerful war images he had seen and admired.

However, he wouldn’t have to leave his country to cover war.

On April 13, 1975, the Phalangist militia attacked a bus in Beirut’s Ain el-Remmaneh neighbourhood.

The bus was carrying Palestinians and Lebanese home from a political rally by the Popular Front for the…