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Nob
Nob in the Bible, religious center just N of Jerusalem. Saul had its inhabitants massacred. ... Read more
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon , 1928-, Israeli general and politician, b. Kfar Malal. He gained attention for his superb military leadership in the 1948 and 1956 Arab-Israeli Wars and was made a major general months before the 1967 war. In the 1973 conflict Israeli forces under his command captured Egypt's 3d Army... Read more
Fort Mims
Fort Mims temporary stockade near the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. It was the scene of a massacre (Aug. 30, 1813); William Weatherford led a Native American force in the killing of c.500 whites. ... Read more
Peterloo massacre
Peterloo massacre public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws and... Read more
Abiathar
Abiathar , in the Bible, priest, son of Ahimelech, the only one of his family who escaped massacre by Doeg. He fled to David, to whom he remained loyal. Later he sided with Adonijah against Solomon, who took away his priesthood. ... Read more
Glencoe
Glencoe , valley of the Coe River, Highland, W Scotland. It was the scene of the massacre of the Macdonald clan (Feb., 1692) by the Campbells, under the direction of John Campbell, 1st earl of Breadalbane, and John Dalrymple, 1st earl of Stair. ... Read more
massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day
massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day murder of French Protestants, or Huguenots , that began in Paris on Aug. 24, 1572. It was preceded, on Aug. 22, by an attempt, ordered by Catherine de' Medici , on the life of the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny . The failure of the attempt led to formulation ... Read more
Katyn
Katyn , village, W central European Russia, 12 mi (19 km) W of Smolensk. During World War II, when it was part of the USSR, it was occupied by the Germans in Aug., 1941. In 1943 the German government announced that the mass grave of some 4,250 Polish officers had been found in a forest near Katyn an... Read more
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre 1770, pre-Revolutionary incident growing out of the resentment against the British troops sent to Boston to maintain order and to enforce the Townshend Acts . The troops, constantly tormented by irresponsible gangs, finally (Mar. 5, 1770) fired into a rioting crowd and killed five ... Read more
Michael Cresap
Michael Cresap , 1742-75, American frontiersman and soldier, b. Allegany co., Md. A Native American fighter, he was accused by Thomas Jefferson and others of massacring the family of the friendly Native American chief Logan and thus starting (1774) Lord Dunmore's War. But this is denied by most mode... Read more

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Ariel Sharon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...refugee camps in West Beirut and held at least indirectly responsible for their subsequent massacre of civilians in the Sabra and Shatila camps. He resigned (1983) from the defense ministry but remained in parliament. He subsequently was minister of trade... Read more

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Sharon dodges war crimes lawsuit for now; Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appears to have evaded justice over the massacres at Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps but his reprieve may be only temporary. (Israel).
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Palestinians and Lebanese in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in September 1982...see Sharon put on trial for the massacres, carried out by Israeli-backed...who, more than 20 years after Sabra and Shatila, chose to silence him. Hobeika... Read more
Sabra & Shatila.(book)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 12/1/2004; ; 420 words ; ...September 1982, the massacre of Sabra and Shatila took place in the Lebanese capital...district came to be known as the Sabra and Shatila Camps. The district had expanded...conclusively that what took place in Sabra and Shatila between 16 and 18 September... Read more
LEBANON: LEBANESE MILITIA HEAD WHO CARRIED OUT SABRA AND CHATILLA MASSACRE - KILLED.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 1/24/2002; 100 words ; ...Hobeika was about to leave his home. Hobeika, 45, commanded the Christian Lebanese Forces militia, which carried out the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees at Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Read more
Shatila: 15 years on. (Israeli invasion in Beirut, Lebanon camps)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila. International...community was shocked. Sabra has already gone...of the infamous Shatila being bulldozed...camps in history - Shatila. Known as the site of the Sabra and Shatila massacres of September 1982...responsible for the ... Read more
SYRIA: DAMASCUS RADIO: SHARON'S GOAL - DESTRUCTION OF WEST BANK.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/29/2002; 138 words ; ...decision to cancel the fact-finding mission regarding the massacres of Jenin would serve as a new catalyst for Israeli...commentary, the state-run radio stressed that the butcher of Sabra and Shatila's daily incursions into Palestinian occupied territories... Read more
Terrorism as a weapon.
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Palestinians by Christians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut, Lebanon...served in any way to justify the Sabra and Shatila massacre? Not at all. Virtually...leaders would agree that the Sabra and Shatila atrocity was wholly unjustified... Read more
The Scar of David.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 2/1/2008; ; 194 words ; ...frayed identity, terrorism, exhaustion of the spirit, surrender, and courage. Three massacres and two major wars provide five angles to this novel: Sabra and Shatila, Southern Lebanon, 1982; US embassy bombing, Beirut, 1983; Refugee camp of Jenin... Read more
Encyclopedia of terrorism, rev. ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2007; 245 words ; ...revolutionary groups, and even the occasional state act of terrorism (e.g. Ariel Sharon's involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacres) are included by editors Combs (U. of North Carolina) and Slann (Macon State College). However, there are a... Read more
The Palestine Yearbook of International Law, vol. 12, 2002/2003.(LAW)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 161 words ; ...territories; a special dossier of legal materials related to attempts to hold Ariel Sharon accountable for the Sabra and Shatila massacres under Belgian law; reproductions of relevant judicial decisions and legislation from Palestine and Israel... Read more
Israeli coalition is dangerous.(Ariel Sharon and Israel's military policy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/2/2001; ; 573 words ; ...including hundreds of Palestinians massacred in Sabra and Shatila -- and hundreds of thousands were wounded and displaced...repression. Unfortunately, neither these atrocities nor the Sabra and Shatila debacle put an end to his career, so that today a... Read more