This week in history: Remember Sabra and Shatila

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 10:00

On September 16, 1982, under the protection of the Israeli military, then led by the current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, right-wing Lebanese Christian militias entered the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. They murdered thousands of Palestinian refugees. Pregnant women had their stomachs torn open while militias took bets on the sex of the foetus. The atrocity earned Sharon the nickname "Butcher of Beirut". While the world remembers the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York, who remembers the thousands of victims of the atrocities at Sabra and Shatila?

From Green Left Weekly, September 14, 2005.

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