According to A Country Study, after repeated diplomatic efforts failed to quell the Lebanese Civil War, on June 1, 1976, Syria intervened in Lebanon (1987:192). In October 1976, the Arab League agreed to send an Arab Deterrence Force charged with peacekeeping in Lebanon (Ibid.:193). However, as A country Study reports "...the agreement in effect legitimized and subsidized the Syrian occupation of Lebanon" (Ibid.).

Amnesty International reported that "Between April and August (1989), Syrian forces arrested 14 suspected members of the pro-Iraqi Ba'th Party in the Beka` Valley (...)" (Report 1990:228). Case of ill-treatment have also been reported by Amnesty International. "Former detainees have reported being severely tortured during interrogation, although they stated that the "real" torture was "reserved" for Anjar, a town in the Beka Valley on the Syrian-Lebanese border" (Amnesty International, 1987:26).

Please find attached a photocopy of an article on Syrian conduct in Lebanon titled Syria: Torture by the Security Forces, especially pages 26-28-29.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Country Study, "Lebanon", Washington: Library of Congress, 1987.

Amnesty International, Syria: Torture by the Security Forces, London: Amnesty International Publications, 1987