TWO BRITISH DOCTORS - Paul Morris from Ealing and Dr Swee Chai Ang - revealed last week in their evidence to the Israeli commission of enquiry on the massacres, that most of the killings took place at the time when Israel claims that they had stopped the massacre.
hospital, near the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps at the time of the killings. They confirmed that the majority of the killings had in fact occurred between Thursday night September 16 and Friday noon, when it was supposed to have been halted.
An American Ellen Seigal, saw MOUSeS on the Saturday The houses were demolished to cover up the burying of hundreds the Hassalic of bodies beneath them. Both the doctors were working in the Gaza Ellen Seigal revealed that the houses were identified by a Hebrew letter painted on their side. If this is true, it represents at least some evidence for the proposition inal soldiers were driving the bulldozers.
Dr • Ang said that she was vocialilly Thursday morning until Friday. Her first patient had been brought in on Thursday morning with a bullet wound irom a niga velocity gun.
But during the afternoon the casualties were more and more suffering from wounds inflicted at close range by grenades ana mortars. Dr Ang sala that women and children LOO her that LOK Phalangist militia men had orcakille HILU houses and shooting whole familles.
This still during was the NOUS of daylight, although according to the Israelis the militia men had not gone in until 6pm.
Neither doctor had known that a wholesale massacre was going on outside the hospital. DI Ang said: "The first time I saw video-tape oi • peopic being shot. and dead bodies lying in the streets I cried. Here were, 2 meagre team of foreigners, trying our very best for 72 hours, without sleep, to save the lives o 0 or 40 people and they WCIC dying their thousands. If I had known that they were dying by the thousands, I would have stopped operating mediately, and gone out into the streets and done something about it'. • Pedro Ramirez Esquive (TGWU) • Daniel (or David) Avalos (TGWU)
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Get your nearest Labour Land government asking it to inon 8nd St, London SW1. UTTICO The El Salvador CommitHuman Rights can be contacted c/o 21 Com Terrace London 2UN Tel: 01-359 1836 or 220 trained by us'. Exactly! ISRAELI Prime Minister Begin himself answered questions in front of the commission of enquiry last Monday. He testified that at the cabinet meetings which approved the chief of staff that some form of Phalangist massacre was possible. Begin said that he knew that there had been massacres in the past 'but after all the Phalangists were into the refugee camps they had been told by the Israeli