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in West Bei
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many of them Palestinians, had been
taken in for interrogation.» Most of the
men arrested in the Lebanese Army
sweep of Beirut have never been heard
of since.
In 1983, the kidnappings in West
Beirut continued and reached a peak in
the months just prior to the liberation of
West Beirut in February 1984. The vic-
tims included many Lebanese patriots
abducted by Phalangists. This wave of
disappearances forever shattered fas-
cist propaganda contentions that Pales-
tinians were to blame for insecurity in
Beirut. —
On July 2, 1984, the International
Federation for the Rights of Man held a\
press conference in Paris to publicize °
the plight of the disappeared in Leba-
non. The organization acts as a clearing-
house for collating statistics on the mis-
sing, and representatives stat2d that
2,011 Palestinians and Lebanese are
currently missing due to abduction by
the Israeli-backed Phalangist militia.
More than 1,000 oihers are still missing
after the Lebanese Army sweep of West
Beirut. By comparison, the Federation
said that the Shiite Amal Movement was
thought to be holding 47 Phalangist
combattants and that the Druze Prog-
ressive Socialist Party of Walid Jumblatt
was thought to be holding only «several
dozen Christian militiamen». Jumblatt
stated at the end of July that none of the
disappeared from the mountain war in
the Shouf last winter are still alive due to
the intensity of the combat.
With 6,000 West Beirutis killed in
the 1982 Israeli siege, 3,000 killed in
the Sabra-Shatila massacre, and thou-
sands more disappeared and wounded
during the past two years of continuous
war against West Beirut, there is hardly
a family in the national areas which has
not lost a member or now has someone
disabled. This then forms the base for
the movement of the Families of the Dis-
appeared.
No political reconciliation
without the guilty brought to
justice
The Families of the Disappeared
escalated their protest movement in
July, just as the government of Prime
Minister Karami announced _ the
implementation of a new security plan in
Beirut which sought to abolish the green
line dividing fascist and leftist controlled
areas of the city, opening all crossing
points between the two sectors and
opening the port and airport. The gov-
ernment was set to go ahead with the
plan while totally ignoring the culpability
of the Phalange for the massive destruc-
tion wrought in West Beirut and the
southern suburbs since the 1982 Israeli
invasion. Not surprisingly, the Amin
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