Popular Revolutionary Resistance Organization

Despite the deceiving ‘leftist’ trend of its title, the Popular Revolutionary Resistance Organization – PRRO (Arabic: التنظيم الثوري للمقاومة الشعبية transliteration Al-Tanzim al-Thawri lil-Muqawama al-Sha’abiyah) or Organisation de la Resistance Populaire Révolutionnaire (OPPR) in French was a Phoenicist-oriented, anti-Syrian Lebanese Christian underground terrorist group that emerged in March 1987, being responsible for a single combined bomb-and-rocket attack on a West Beirut hotel. Four residing Syrian intelligence officials were wounded in the course of action, and although the group warned of forthcoming attacks, little was heard of them since. It has been suggested that the PRRO was simply a cover for the Lebanese Liberation Front or a splinter faction, but is now considered to be inactive.

See also

• Lebanese civil war
• Lebanese Forces
• Guardians of the Cedars
• Lebanese Liberation Front
• Liberation Battalion
• Sons of the South
• Phoenicianism

References

• Rex Brynen, Sanctuary and Survival: the PLO in Lebanon, Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
• Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, London: Oxford University Press, (3rd ed. 2001). ISBN 0192801309
• Edgar O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. ISBN 978-0-333-72975-5