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Sabra and Shatila at Panorama
Reuven (18/06/2001)
Directed to BBC:
World Affairs Unit,
BBC Television Centre,
Wood Lane,
Shepards Bush,
W12 7SRJ
Dear BBC manager and Mr. Fergal Keane,
It is very brave of you for focusing on so old news,
like Sabra and Shatila, just because they concern
human rights.
In your internet site at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/panorama/default.stm
the following paragraph appears:
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The idea that what happened at Sabra and Shatila should not be held up
to public scrutiny on the grounds of the general beastliness of the
Middle East may be seductive to those who killed and to those who are
accused of failing in their responsibilities to the murdered
civilians.
But if the rest of us are SEDUCED by this argument we abandon the most
basic principles of democratic accountability. And that way tyranny
lies.
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YOU, Mr. Keane seem to be SEDUCED by this argument, otherwise you
would have investigated the massacre done by Hafez el'Assad in
27th of March 1958, in the Syrian village of al'Hamam. He killed there
18000 people. Was he ever a candidate for being judged in the
international court for war crimes ???
But of course, your OBJECTIVENESS determined you to deal with the
800 people killed in Sabra and Shatila !!
If you are interested in investigating war crimes, here are some
interesting suggestions for you:
1. Hafez el'Assad killed 18000 people at al'Hamam.
2. Churchill bombed Berlin. Did he make sure to bomb only NAZIS
or his bombing hit also innocent non-nazi germans ??
3. Roosvelt and Churchill signed the Yalta agreement with Stalin.
Did they know that the russian soldiers massacre and rape innocent
people when they conquest ?? They have an INDIRECT responsibility
for that. They SHOULD have known !!
4. Did you ever think of inviting Mr. Yeltzin or Putin to the
international court, for killing more than 100000 innocent
Chechnians ?? Or maybe Russia is TOO strong, so BRAVE human rights
fighter deal only with weaker countries like Yougoslavia ??
5. You investigated Yasser Arafat for allowing corruption, abuse
of free speech and torture. What about KILLING of thousands of
innocent jews in TERROR attacks ??? You still didn't investigate
him for that !!
THANKS for you OBJECTIVENESS !!
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