Sabra-Shatila & Lebanon

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What is the Sabra and Shatila massacre?

ㆆThe Sabra and Shatila mas-sacre was the genocide of Palestinians and Lebanese civil-ians, by Lebanese Christian Pha-langist militia in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps.

ㆆSabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps㉪At that time, some Palestinian refugee camps were occupied by Is-rael. ㉪Sabra and Shatila were the places where Palestinian refugees established their camps in the Israeli occupied terri-tory of Western Beirut.

Sabra – Shatila Palestinian refugee camp

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_sabra_shatila.phphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Sabra_and_Shatila_massacrehttp://www.tadamon.ca/post/877

What happened in Lebanon ?In Lebanon, there are Lebanese civil war between Christians and Muslim – PLO alliance.The war resulted in at least hun-dred thousand of deaths, dam-aged cities, and houses and shocked people. Lebanese fought with other comradely Lebanese people and killed one another be-cause of different cultures.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/lebanon.htm

http://bahaablog.blogspot.ca/2010/04/lebanese-civil-war-13-april-1975.html

Where did the massacre happen ?

Lebanon

Ⅰ. The Sabra – Shatila massacre happened in Lebanon.Ⅱ. Lebanon is a country in the East Mediterranean.Ⅲ. And there are Syria and Israel around Lebanon.Ⅳ. They were often in conflicts one another.http://www.habeeb.com/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon

Who were involved the mas-sacre?

Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia killed Palestinians and Lebanese Mus-lim civilians in the Sabra – Shatila refugee camps.

Many various tribes live in Lebanon.Most of groups that caused conflicts

were Palestinians, Christians, Mus-lims, Israelis.

Palestinians have disputed to Israeli, because Israeli banished them out of Israeli territories.

Palestinians made Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and combined with the Lebanese Muslim against Is-raeli.

Also Muslim groups and Christian groups disputed each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Lebanonhttp://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/10/07/christians-in-lebanon-fret-despite-privileged-role/http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/news/lebanons-mufti-slams-attacks-on-christians_9547

Why did the massacre happen?

Causes are differences of the religion and traditions.

Bashir Gemayel who was elected Lebanese presi-dent newly and leader of the Lebanese militia, was assassinated by someone’s bombing terror.

Lebanese Christian militia thought the Muslim – PLO alliance must did that.

So they had their revenge on the Muslim – PLO al-liance.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Sabra_&_Shatila.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacrehttp://qifanabki.com/2009/08/05/the-next-lebanon-war/

When did it happen?The first conflict between Christian group

and Muslim group started in May 1958.The Lebanese civil war started on April 13

1975, after the banished Palestinian refugees established the refugee camps in the Lebanon.

In 1982, Palestinian refugees were killed by a ceasefire among Israel and Lebanon.

The Lebanese civil war ended on October 13, 1990. But Israel and Arab alliance still have been fighting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_Civil_War

What did other countries do?

The United States, Italy and France sent their forces to Israeli.

Then, Israeli troops went over West Beirut to secure Muslim militia bases and step aside as Lebanese Christian militias massacred almost hundred of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

And the U.S. influenced to break a ceasefire among Syria, the PLO, and Israel.

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=88475

How did it end?

Lebanese government asked for ceasefire to Israeli forces in 1982.

But a ceasefire was broken and many coun-tries join this civil war for peace after them.

Finally, Israel killed almost hundred of Pales-tinian and Lebanese Muslim civilians with the United Nations’ auxiliary troops.

On September 13, 1990, the Lebanese civil war ended.

But they still fight even now.

http://www.godhatesthe-world.com/lebanon/godswrath.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/mili-tary/world/war/lebanon.htm

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