Today is the 40th anniversary of the massacres at Shabra and Shatila. The perpetrators eulogised and promoted, the victims forgotten and the cruelty continues unabated. I wonder how much of this is taught in school history. Stupid of me to even think it might be touched on?
From an American journo at the time, “I saw dead women in their houses with their skirts up to their waists and their legs spread apart; dozens of young men shot after being lined up against an alley wall; children with their throats slit, a pregnant woman with her stomach chopped open, her eyes still wide open, her blackened face silently screaming in horror; countless babies and toddlers who had been stabbed or ripped apart and who had been thrown into garbage piles.”