Word: slaughterer
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...centers), or should we continue to aim for "assured destruction" of civilian and industrial targets? Ever since the Soviets began to approach strategic parity, it should have been obvious that a strategy aiming at civilian destruction was an irrational, suicidal, indeed nihilistic course that no President could implement. Undiscriminating slaughter is not a defense policy but a prelude to unilateral disarmament...
Israel's inquiry has, thankfully, ended. Yet countless more remain: -- Where is the Syrian inquiry into last year's slaughter of 10,000 of her own people in the fifth largest city. Hama? -- Where is the Jordanian investigation of the September 1970 Black September Massacre of 10,000 Palestinians? --Where is the Somalian account of the October 21 massacre of 500 in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia...
Many of the physical wounds left on the camps by the siege and the slaughter remain unmended. In the final stages of the massacre, Phalangist militiamen ran bulldozers into homes with the dual aim of destroying shelters and burying victims in the rubble. On the main street running through Shatila, a demolished house is a tangle of rusting steel supports. Remnants of clothing are caught in the twisted red bars, so that the rubble looks like a nightmarish clothes closet. The second story of another house is exposed where a wall was ripped away. On the upper floor a drinking...
Publication of the Israeli commission report last week brought little joy or satisfaction to the residents of Sabra and Shatila. Said a Lebanese woman who lost several cousins and neighbors in the slaughter: "It is not enough for Israeli officials to lose their jobs. They should hang, or they should be made to die like dogs the way people were killed here." Others were less vengeful, but equally cynical. Said a young Palestinian woman who plans to leave Lebanon: "The Israeli judges did not tell half the truth. They just said enough to try to convince the world that they...
...Franco di Giacomo's images has the same cartoon clarity whether it documents the townspeople's journey or dramatizes their sweetest, saddest fantasies. A girl bumps into some soldiers and sees them as G.I.s, come to take her to America; in fact they are Germans about to slaughter her, and her vision is a dream flash the moment before she dies. Early in the film, the villagers hear a faint but rousing rendition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and imagine it is the American Army; in fact it is only a phonograph record, but the villagers...