In fact, we had first been driven to the Bourj al-Barajneh camp because someone told us that there was a massacre there. All we saw was a Lebanese soldier chasing a car theif down a street.
The catastrophe was the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut. The killers were Israel's Lebanese allies, the Christian Phalangists. FISK ...
SHATILA REFUGEE CAMP ... founded in the aftermath of a 1976 massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christian militias in another refugee camp in northern Beirut. The workshop's initial mission ...