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RESISTANCE
My Life for Lebanon


ANTOINE LAHAD
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY
FEMALE DETAINEES
GENEVA CONVENTION
INTERNATIONAL LAW
INTERROGATION
ISRAELI OCCUPATION
KHIAM DETENTION CENTER
LAWS OF WAR
LEBANESE CIVIL WAR
PRISONERS OF WAR (POW)
SOUHA BECHARA
SOUTH LEBANON ARMY (SLA)
SOUTHERN LEBANON
TESTIMONY
TORTURE
WAR CRIMES

In 1988, at the age of twenty, Souha Bechara attempted to assassinate General Lahad, chief of militia in charge of Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon. Immediately apprehended, interrogated, and tortured for weeks, she was sent to Khiam, a prison and death camp regularly condemned by humanitarian organizations. After an intense Lebanese, European, and even Israeli campaign in her favor, she was released in 1998. 

In a time when special attention is paid to the violent conflicts in the Middle East, and Americans despair of understanding what motivates Palestinian suicide bombers, the story of a secular Orthodox Christian leftist rebel risking her life to rid her country of occupying forces will resonate with Americans looking to understand why young Palestinian girls blow themselves up in crowded Jerusalem markets.



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