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Sabra And Shatila - On Massacres, Atrocities And Holocausts :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it


Sabra And Shatila - On Massacres, Atrocities And Holocausts :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it: "It happened twenty-five years ago ­ 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders ­ charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses, the smell of rotting flesh, still as foul to those who remember it as when they were recoiling from it all those years ago. For the victims and the handful of survivors, it was a 36-hour holocaust without mercy. It was deliberate, it was planned and it was overseen. But to this day, the killers have gone unpunished."

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