Word: chatila
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...drove out the PLO, only to start negotiating with Yasser Arafat after a Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza trip a few years later. Suspected Syrian agents assassinated Bashir Gemayel days before his presidential inauguration. His supporters retaliated by slaughtering hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut. The U.S. dispatched troops to quell the unrest, while Reagan's envoys negotiated a peace accord between Israel and Amin Gemayel who had taken his brother's place...
...Princeton Professor of International Law Richard Falk, it got significantly worse. Last June, Falk appeared on a BBC episode of “Panorama” that explored the role of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre. Falk, who is Jewish and who was a part of the international commission that investigated Sharon’s involvement in the massacre, stated that he had “no doubt whatsoever” that Sharon is indictable as a war criminal. Over the course of the next few weeks, the phone calls and hate mail...
...also have a personal incentive to end your government’s frightful policies. There is a growing international campaign to indict you for your part in the 1982 massacres in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps, with Belgium willing to host your trial. Princeton professor of international law Richard Falk affirms that there is “no doubt whatsoever” that you are indictable as a war criminal. Even Israeli newspapers have begun using the term “war crime” to describe not only your checkered past, but also your recent house demolitions...
...Sharon wanted to negotiate, few Palestinians would take him seriously. After all, it was Sharon who ignited the present conflict in Sept. 2000 when he visited a Muslim holy site with 1,000 armed soldiers. But hatred toward Sharon stems primarily from his role in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacres, which left 2,000 women and children dead. While most Western newspapers suffer from a convenient amnesia when it comes to Sharon’s brutal past, Palestinians will not easily forget...
...like a drug addiction," says Chatila. "If you stop, there's a tremendous backlash...