Knights of Ali
The 'Knights of Ali' was an obscure Shia militia that used to operate at West Beirut and a member of the Lebanese National Movement in the mid-1970s. In May 1975, the group was responsible for the massacre and mutilation of 50 Christians, whose severed genitalia were placed in their mouths and whose bodies were left in a cemetery at the mainly Muslim Beirut district of Bashoura. Regarded as a mere criminal street gang, the 'Knights of Ali' disappeared around the late 1970s or early 1980s and nothing has been heard of them since.
