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Sabra and Shatila - A Massacre in Lebanon

Sabra and Shatila - A Massacre in Lebanon

FromWitness History


Sabra and Shatila - A Massacre in Lebanon

FromWitness History

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Sep 15, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A doctor working in Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon recalls the massacre there in September 1982. Over the course of three days, Lebanese Christian militiamen killed and raped hundreds of the Palestinian inhabitants of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut in revenge for the assassination of their leader, Lebanese president elect, Bashir Gemayel. Dr Swee Ang treated the wounded in the basement of the only hospital in the camp; she tells Louise Hidalgo her story.Photo: A Palestinian woman cries while civil defence workers carry the body of one of her relatives from the rubble of her home in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in West Beirut, 19th September 1982 (Credit: STF/AFP/Getty Images)
Released:
Sep 15, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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History as told by the people who were there.