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Ariel Sharon: The Accused
BBC:
Panorama: First broadcast 17 June 2001
The man who is now Israel's Prime Minister,
Ariel Sharon, sent Lebanese militiamen into the Palestine refugee
camps of Sabra and Shatilla. When they left 36 hours later at
least 800 people lay dead after a rampage of murder, torture and
rape.
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Nearly 20 years ago the man who is now Israel's Prime Minister,
Ariel Sharon, sent Lebanese militiamen into the Palestine refugee
camps of Sabra and Shatilla. When they left 36 hours later at
least 800 people lay dead after a rampage of murder, torture and
rape.
The massacre provoked international outrage. In Israel itself
400,000 people took to the streets in the largest demonstration
the country had ever seen. Ariel Sharon was forced to resign as
Israel's defence minister.
But he has maintained that he could not have foreseen the
danger of a massacre in the camps. Fergal Keane investigates this
claim, and talks to key witnesses and survivors of the massacre.
In the light of developments in international war crimes
prosecutions the programme asks whether the evidence should lead
to indictments for what happened in the camps.
See Also:
BBC's Panorama comes under fire for its investigation into the
role of Ariel Sharon in the massacre of civilians in Lebanon 20
years ago.
Full report of the 1983 Israeli inquiry into the Sabra and
Shatila massacres
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