“Around mid-day on Thursday 16 September 1982, a unit of approximately 150 Israeli-allied Phalangists entered the first camp. For the next 40 hours members of the Phalangist militia raped, killed, and injured a large number of unarmed civilians, mostly children, women and elderly people inside the encircled and sealed camps. The estimate of victims varies between 700 (the official Israeli figure) to 3,500. The victims and survivors of the massacres have never been deemed entitled to a formal investigation of the tragedy, since Israel’s Kahan Commission did not have a judicial mandate and was not backed up by legal force.”
Sharon must feel like he’s stuck in a time-warp, are heady summer days, time for a slaughter methinks.
Some people can never forget that 11 September. More than 20 years subsequent to that, still no answers for some.
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Caption: Tears for the past: A woman sheds a tear while holding the portrait of her father who went missing during the military regime, during a rally marking the 30st anniversary of the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. (AFP/Martin Bernetti) (Source).
Go see the movie September 11 - Entitled 11'09"01 September 11, the film incorporates 11-minute shorts from 11 international
directors, including shorts from Egypt, Iran, Britain, India and USA.
How these directors saw 11 sept - one highlights the Chilean coup d'etat (11 Sep 1973) and its fallout on the Chilean people.
Not sure if the movie found a distributor in USA - does anyone know if it hit the major cinemas in USA?