And so it continues: 26 years after the massacre
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"This week marks the 26th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the second half of the twentieth century. A Google search for recent news reports on this year's commemoration of the atrocity, however, brought up very little. Yes, there were some emotional blog posts, as well as a link to the BBC's "On this Day" page, featuring quick facts and figures about the massacre, alongside an archival, and iconic, photograph of twisted corpses lying in a heap next to a cinderblock wall, the victims of an execution-style killing.
It has been more than a quarter of a century since more than 1,000 unarmed men, women, and children were raped, maimed and slaughtered. The massacre occurred at the dividing point of the 1975-1990 Lebanese war. Some might say that the killings were the marker or the catalyst of the war's horrible turning point. Before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and siege of Beirut in the summer of 1982, the Lebanese civil war had taken many lives and introduced new images and phrases into the Arabic and English languages. The Lebanese war involved many players and funders, not all of them local. But with the entry of the Israeli army and air force, Lebanon witnessed more death and destruction in three months than it had suffered during the previous seven years. Sabra and Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, marked the site of the Israeli-Palestinian and the internal Lebanese conflicts' intersection. The front lines of these conflicts slashed through the refugee camps for three dark days and three eerily bright nights illuminated by flares that the surrounding Israeli army fired over the camps to assist their Lebanese client militia, the Phalange, in their gruesome tasks."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9837.shtml
It has been more than a quarter of a century since more than 1,000 unarmed men, women, and children were raped, maimed and slaughtered. The massacre occurred at the dividing point of the 1975-1990 Lebanese war. Some might say that the killings were the marker or the catalyst of the war's horrible turning point. Before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and siege of Beirut in the summer of 1982, the Lebanese civil war had taken many lives and introduced new images and phrases into the Arabic and English languages. The Lebanese war involved many players and funders, not all of them local. But with the entry of the Israeli army and air force, Lebanon witnessed more death and destruction in three months than it had suffered during the previous seven years. Sabra and Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, marked the site of the Israeli-Palestinian and the internal Lebanese conflicts' intersection. The front lines of these conflicts slashed through the refugee camps for three dark days and three eerily bright nights illuminated by flares that the surrounding Israeli army fired over the camps to assist their Lebanese client militia, the Phalange, in their gruesome tasks."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9837.shtml
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1000 people? pffft. That's nothing.
How about 10,000-40,000 people?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
2. To disregard the deaths of 1000 innocent people is pretty low.
3. This 10,000 death count was after 3 weeks, whereas the 1000+ death count was after 3 days. Oh, and not to mention the fact that most people estimate the death count was 2000-3500 people
4. In Sabra and Shatila, there was pretty much NO resistance, whereas in Hama there was resistance.
The entire city of Hama was surrounded and leveled, and you think that means only 2000-3500 people?
And who are these "most people"? Anyway, you're wrong. Most people do not think it was 2500-3000 people.
Ethnic cleansing in Serbia/Bosnia took several years. Does that mean it's not a "bloody event?"
Lastly, what's "low" is using an expression like "one of the bloodiest events..." not because it actually is, but because of a political agenda. It's as though you're glad it happened just so you could have the opportunity to slag Israel. Now that's what I would call "low." Sad more than anything.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825