"A man in his sixties, with kind eyes and a ready smile, waits until I am comfortably situated before he approaches me, pulls up his shirt, and points to an area just to the left of his navel. 'lammasini hon, sittnaa!' he quietly requests, 'Touch me here, Ma'am!' His middle-aged daughters sit silently around me, their eyes focused on nothing in particular as I gingerly comply with their father's request. Touching the damp flesh of his round white belly, I am shocked to feel the hard, spherical mass of a bullet trapped in his stomach muscles."
On the 21st anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, EI's Laurie King-Irani reflects on the search for international justice following a journey from Beirut to Brussels.
The Electronic Intifada:
http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article1929.shtml
For more information, see http://indictsharon.net
Please also read:
“Summary of Events, 4 and 5 June 1982”:
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ib90
and
“Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the events at the refugee camps in Beirut, 8 February 1983”: http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ign0
both from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On the 21st anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, EI's Laurie King-Irani reflects on the search for international justice following a journey from Beirut to Brussels.
The Electronic Intifada:
http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article1929.shtml
For more information, see http://indictsharon.net
Please also read:
“Summary of Events, 4 and 5 June 1982”:
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ib90
and
“Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the events at the refugee camps in Beirut, 8 February 1983”: http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ign0
both from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.