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IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Information on this subject is scarce.
According to a professor of Political
Sciences at the Université du Québec à
Montréal, al-Ansar is a mainly Christian militia created
because the Lebanese army was unable to successfully recruit among
young Christians (26 Jan. 1993). The professor added that this
paramilitary organization has a similar status as the reserve, but
it is submitted to a stricter military training (Ibid.).
General Aoun re-energized this organization with new recruits
during his war against the Syrian army (Ibid.). This
organization is not currently active (Ibid.).
In a book published in 1990, Robert Fisk
reported the existence of an Israeli-controlled prison camp called
Ansar (1990, 455). This information was corroborated by the
professor of Political Sciences at the Université du
Québec à Montréal, who further reported that
this prison was located in the Israeli self- declared "security
zone" near the village of Ansar (26 Jan. 1993).
Additional and/or corroborating information
on this subject is currently unavailable to the DIRB in Ottawa.
Fisk, Robert. 1990. Pity the
Nation: Lebanon at War. London, U.K.: Andre Deutsch
Limited.
Université du Québec
à Montréal, Department of Political Sciences. 26
January 1992. Telephone Interview with Professor.