Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same message -- never again -- half a century after the devastating conflict erupted. "It was a useless war," says Georges Mazraani, who was in charge of the front in Beirut's working-class neighbourhood of Ain al-Remmaneh, where the conflict started on April 13, 1975. The Christian district is separated by one street -- and years of conflict -- from the Muslim neighbourhood of Shiyah. "The ones who paid the heavy price were the poor from all sides," adds Nassim Assaad, another veteran fighter who fought for the Lebanese Communist Party. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES