[tadamon-l] Lebanon: Dispossession in Nahr el-Bared

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* Lebanon: Dispossession in Nahr el-Bared
Photo Essay from Raed El Rafei.

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1301

Lebanon's Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, once home to an estimated 
Palestinian refugees, remains in ruins, almost completely destroyed. 
Reconstruction efforts of the camp have been slow in the past months. As 
the military battle between the Lebanese military and the shady armed 
organization Fatah al-Islam raged, news of Nahr el-Bared filled the pages 
of newspapers across the world. Now military combat has halted in 
September 2007, Nahr el-Bared lies in rubble as displaced Palestinian 
refugees in Lebanon slowly are returning to their former home destroyed by 
an often indiscriminate military campaign lead-by the Lebanese army.

Today, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon continue to live as second-class 
citizens, without basic legal rights, a symbol of the continued 
dispossession of the Palestinian people. 2008 marks the 60th year of the 
Palestinian Nakba ("catastrophe")- 60 years of dispossession, ethnic 
cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the 
state of Israel. The Palestinian refugees of Nahr el-Bared present one of 
the clearest symbols of the continued dispossession of the Palestinian 
people around the world, the largest documented refugee population on 
earth.

* Raed El Rafei is a Lebanese reporter and a blogger working for the Los 
Angeles Times in Beirut, you can read an article from Raed El Rafei from 
the LA Times.

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