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Article: The guns stop, not the anger: Lebanon.(Lebanese victims of the April, 1996 Hizbullah-Israeli conflict are buried)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 4, 1996
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THE religious sects and political parties of Lebanon fought themselves to a standstill during 15 years of civil war. Even when peace came at last in 1990, they remained largely unreconciled. Now Israel's 16-day blitz of south Lebanon has brought them together in mourning--and anger. Shia and Sunni Muslims and Christians gathered as one at Qana on April 30th to bury the 102 people killed by Israeli artillery fire on April 18th while they sought shelter at a UN peacekeepers' post. The dead were buried in a mass grave, in separate niches, so far as some shattered corpses could be pieced together at all. The burial site is to be a national monument, and April 18th a day of ...
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