[Peace-discuss] Fwd: EYEWITNESS: SABRA AND SHATILA 20 YEARS ON Martin Asser, BBC News, 9/14/02

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
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>Subject: EYEWITNESS: SABRA AND SHATILA 20 YEARS ON Martin Asser, BBC 
>News, 9/14/02
>To: akagan at uiuc.edu
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>EYEWITNESS: SABRA AND SHATILA 20 YEARS ON
>Martin Asser, BBC News, 9/14/02
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2255902.stm>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2255902.stm
>
>There's another significant anniversary this week, but not one that's
>attracted the sort of attention the 11 September commemorations have.
>
>On 16 September 1982, under the watchful eye of their Israeli allies
>who
>had encircled the area, Lebanese Christian militiamen entered Beirut's
>Sabra and Shatila refugee camps bent on revenge for the assassination
>of
>their leader Bashir Gemayel.
>
>Refugee camps like Shatila still lack the most basic services
>
>There followed a three-day orgy of rape and slaughter that left
>hundreds,
>possibly thousands, of innocent civilians dead in what is considered
>the
>bloodiest single incident of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
>
>If Americans approached the 11 September anniversary ! with trepidation,
>many
>residents of Shatila camp, and its more run-down neighbour Sabra, have
>been
>dreading the milestone on Monday which marks two decades of pain and
>the
>futile search for justiceÖ
>
>But there will be no internationally-observed minute's silence for the
>innocent victims of Sabra and Shatila, or global news coverage about
>the
>survivors and their miserable existence at the scene of this evil
>crime.
>
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