16 September: Massacre in Beirut refugee camp (2)

Chinese people have a sense of "home", so once they flee, it must be difficult, and the Chinese have integrated their greatest wealth into a real estate certificate, so in the concept of Chinese, fleeing is just "leaving home", in other words, I still have to come back. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoSo, fleeing is more of a "drift with the flow", there is no clear direction, everyone says where it is safe, I will follow the big army. So in the impression of the Chinese, the "threshold" for fleeing is very high, we have seen many scenes in the movie, the city has fallen, many people are unwilling to escape, waiting there, would rather live and die with "home". Which city I go to, no matter how successful my development is, it is a symbol of a stranger, and only when I return to my own home and go to my own pit, is it called a real homecoming. China is so big, to find a safe place to hide, relatively speaking, it is relatively easy, but to make you feel at home, that is a thousand difficulties, so the Chinese people generally do not have the concept of "fleeing", in the last resort, the real scourge of war endangers the safety of themselves and their families, then there is the idea of fleeing. Therefore, in the concept of Chinese people, if you want to flee sincerely, the threshold is not high, the key is that you can't cross the threshold of "home" in your heart. It's spiritual. However, in the international community, the threshold for real escape is relatively high. Fleeing is the same as moving, they don't have the concept of "household registration", today I can be a Beijinger, tomorrow I am not happy, come to the south, I can become a Shanghainese, Guangzhou. This time, there is a threshold for evacuation. I always want to go to the best place, anyway, I always want to do it in one step. As a result, when it comes time to flee, several specific "good" cities become people's first choice, and the destination is nothing more than public transportation, which is really hard to find. Take Beirut, for example, it is the capital, it is considered the safest place, so everyone sees Beirut as the first place to flee, so naturally, transportation to Beirut is hard to find.

Suffice it to say: those who were able to flee from Delimouse to Beirut at that time had some ability, at least they could get tickets. Most of the 31 people who fled did not allow you to drag your family with you, which is equivalent to me running away and leaving my relatives in Deli Musse. It seems a bit cruel, but in the face of human nature, this is a kind of sadness that has to succumb to reality, a ticket, for the whole family, is all hope and sustenance.

But what is incredible is that the people who fled to Beirut did not come to the capital without being safe, on the contrary, on the contrary, September 16, 1982, became the beginning of the real catastrophe of these fugitives - the Beirut refugee camp massacre.

There are still many people who blame this massacre for this terrible massacre, some people have gained wealth by virtue of this massacre, some people have gained status by virtue of this massacre, and some people have consolidated their power by virtue of this massacre, but no one has received the punishment they deserve because of this massacre!

Let's take a look at the punishment of the "executioners" in the aftermath of this massacre: on December 16, 1982 (three months after the event), the United Nations General Assembly condemned the massacre and characterized it as ethnic cleansing. In the vote on the condemnation, 123 countries voted in favour and none voted against. Twenty-two countries abstained and 12 did not vote. Reprimand...... It is the greatest punishment for those executioners. It's like a murderer who kills a lot of people in public, and then gives the correct verdict: It's wrong for you to kill someone, and we want to scold you. That's all!

So who was the real instigator of this massacre? Let's take a brief look back at this piece of history: after the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war, on August 23, 1982, the leader of the Lebanese Christian militia, Bashir Gemayel, was elected president of Lebanon. On the night of 14-15 September, IDF Chief of Staff Eitan flew to Beirut. Arriving in Beirut, he went straight to the headquarters of the Lebanese Falangist Party and demanded a general mobilization from the Falangist leadership. Order Israel to prepare for participation in the upcoming IDF offensive in western Beirut. He also ordered them to impose a curfew in all areas under their control and to assign a liaison officer to be stationed at the forward command post of the IDF. He told the Phalangist leaders that the IDF would not enter the camps, but that the Phalangists would have to be there. The leadership of the Falangist party told Eitan to mobilize. It takes them 24 hours to arrange. On 15 September, Israeli Defence Minister Sharon, who had also arrived in Beirut, joined Etan at the front command. The Israeli front line is ready to be set up in a five-story building 200 metres southwest of the Shatila refugee camp. Senior military officers also attended the meeting, including Sharon's aide Ivy Dudayi, the head of Israel's military intelligence, Joshua Sagay, the leader of the Simbert, Abraham Shalom, the deputy chief of the IDF's General Staff, General Moshe Levy, and other senior military officers. The officers unanimously agreed that the Lebanese Phalangists had to enter the camps.

In the wake of the assassination of its leader, Gemayel, the Lebanese Phalangists have been looking for revenge. On 15 September, Sabra and Shatila were surrounded by Israeli forces. The Israeli army has set up checkpoints at the entrances and exits of the camps and has also used a number of multi-storey buildings as observation posts. Among the buildings used by Israel, the seven-storey Kuwaiti embassy can provide "unobstructed and unobstructed" observation of Sabra and Shatila, according to Time magazine. A few hours later, Israeli tanks began shelling the areas of Sabra and Shatila. The next morning, the sixth order was issued for an offensive to the western part of Beirut. "Do not enter the Palestinian refugee camps, the search and clearance of the camps will be carried out by the Lebanese Falangists and the Lebanese Army," the order stressed. ā€

From this description, it is not difficult to see that the massacre in the Beirut refugee camp was in fact a planned and supportive act of revenge by the Falangists...... (To be continued)