Word: phalangist
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...Then, in 2003, a chance encounter with a psychiatrist opened cracks in his willful amnesia. Soon after, the terrible secret of Folman's worst memory came rushing out: under orders, he and his men had guarded the outer ring of the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila while Christian Phalangist militiamen went inside and butchered hundreds of women and children...
...lingering, subterranean effects of war on the director and some old friends who had served in the Israeli Army during the 1982 incursion into Lebanon. The are still haunted by the massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, perpetrated by followers of the assassinated Christian Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayal...
Israel's most divisive war is often laid at Sharon's feet: the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which he planned as Minister of Defense. One objective, running the P.L.O. out of Lebanon, was largely achieved, but the scheme to install in power the leader of the Lebanese Phalangist militia, a Christian group friendly to Israel, was a debacle. After Phalangist forces massacred as many as 800 men, women and children at the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila, an Israeli inquiry concluded that Sharon bore "indirect" responsibility, forcing him to resign as Defense Minister. Sharon sued TIME...
...Ariel Sharon's tenure as Israeli Defense Minister, two massacres took place in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Southern Lebanon. Two thousand unarmed Palestinian men, women and children were slaughtered. The Israeli Kahan commission described how Sharon ordered the Israeli commanders in Lebanon to allow Phalangist militiamen into the camps to clean out the terrorists he claimed were lurking there. Sharon was held indirectly responsible for the massacres and removed from office. Palestinians feel that the hands of this man are stained with the blood of innocent people...