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There is an article about Sharon in today's Monitor. I've cut and pasted a couple of
paragraphs.
http://www.csmonitor.com/ Daily online newspaper: The Christian Science Monitor
WORLDhttp://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/30/p7s1.htm Sharon begins to take war-crimes
lawsuit seriously
Sharon begins to take war-crimes lawsuit seriously
Last week, Ariel Sharon hired a lawyer and warned army leaders to travel with caution in
Europe.
By Nicholas Blanford
Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BEIRUT,
LEBANON
On a dark September night in 1982, Suad Srour, a 17-year-old Palestinian, suffered an ordeal
of unspeakable horror.
Israeli-allied Lebanese Christian militiamen burst into her simple home deep inside Beirut's
Shatila refugee camp, raped her, and
shot dead her father and five of her siblings.
The Lebanese militiamen had been ordered to cleanse the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila
of "terrorists." The exact
death toll for the massacre remains unknown: estimates vary from 800 and 2,000.
The man who issued the order was Israel's defense minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, now
prime minister of
Israel. Nineteen years later, Mr. Sharon faces the prospect of setting an international legal
precedent by
becoming the first serving prime minister to stand trial for crimes against humanity. And it
seems he is
beginning to feel the heat.
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There is an article about Sharon in today's Monitor. I've cut and pasted
a couple of paragraphs.
http://www.csmonitor.com/ Daily
online newspaper: The Christian Science Monitor
WORLDhttp://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/30/p7s1.htm Sharon
begins to take war-crimes lawsuit seriously
Sharon begins to take war-crimes lawsuit seriously
Last week, Ariel Sharon hired a lawyer and warned army leaders
to travel with caution in Europe.
By Nicholas Blanford
Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BEIRUT, LEBANON
On a dark September night in 1982, Suad Srour, a 17-year-old Palestinian,
suffered an ordeal of unspeakable horror.
Israeli-allied Lebanese Christian militiamen burst into her simple
home deep inside Beirut's Shatila refugee camp, raped her, and
shot dead her father and five of her siblings.
The Lebanese militiamen had been ordered to cleanse the Palestinian
camps of Sabra and Shatila of "terrorists." The exact
death toll for the massacre remains unknown: estimates vary from 800
and 2,000.
The man who issued the order was Israel's defense minister at the time,
Ariel Sharon, now prime minister of
Israel. Nineteen years later, Mr. Sharon faces the prospect of setting
an international legal precedent by
becoming the first serving prime minister to stand trial for crimes
against humanity. And it seems he is
beginning to feel the heat.