A Preventable Massacre | Seth Anziska (NyTimes.com)
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/a-preventable-massacre.html?_r=1&hp
ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped, killed and dismembered at least 800 civilians, while Israeli flares illuminated the camps’ narrow and darkened alleyways. Nearly all of the dead were women, children and elderly men. (...) Source: NyTimes.com