Word: shatila
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...bombings were almost anticlimactic. Earlier in the week, Lebanese Army units had battled Shi'ite militiamen for control of positions near the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps, on the southern rim of Beirut. Though Nabih Berri, leader of Amal, the main Shi'ite militia group, agreed to let government troops take over the sites, the Lebanese soldiers moved in with guns blazing. By the time an uneasy truce had settled over the area, officials estimated, the death toll was 50; unofficially the total was put as high...
...that Yasser Arafat's presence is causing death and destruction in Tripoli [Dec. 5], where are all those voices of conscience that were so outspoken about the tragedy in 1982 at the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps? We should have continuous TV coverage, Security Council resolutions and Vatican statements condemning the violence in Tripoli instead of the condoning silence...
...rare. This year has seen several remarkable examples: the American apology to France for having shielded Klaus Barbie; the U.S. congressional commission's acknowledgment of guilt for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II; the finding of the Israeli commission on the killings at Sabra and Shatila that, though others had committed the crime, Israel bore a national responsibility for not having prevented them from happening...
First reports were fragmentary but horrifying. A group of armed men had entered the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps south of Beirut and opened fire on everyone they could find. They murdered young men in groups of ten or 20, they killed mothers, babies and old people. They even shot horses. And when it was over, they attempted, in a manner reminiscent of World War II, to destroy the evidence by bulldozing the bodies into makeshift common graves. TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro visited the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon and counted 50 corpses in one place. A Red Cross worker...
Which, needless to say, is a long way from being completely safe. Random shells fired by gunners in the Chouf Mountains explode in Shatila and virtually every other neighborhood, underscoring a cruel and dangerous irony facing not only the Italians but also the American, French and British troops in the Multi-National Force (MNF). By doing their job as peace keepers, the approximately 5,400 members of the MNF are being drawn with seeming inexorability into the country's increasingly chaotic civil...