Shaker Abdel Ghani Tatat
Above: Shaker Tatat. Photograph by Philip Reynaers.
It was Saturday 18 September and we were at home when I went to check the car outside. That’s when I saw some soldiers; I thought they were from the Lebanese army. They demanded to search the house; the family was asleep so I woke them up and we all went outside. They took us towards Shatila camp. As we were walking, we passed people who had been killed and corpses and it was then that I realised then that there was a massacre going on. They drove us to the Rihab station; they wanted to take us to the Kuwaiti embassy. That’s when the cars stopped and loaded up with youths, no one but youths, including my son.
As for us, they delivered us to the Israelis and the Israelis took us to the Sports Centre, where they kept us.
That’s how they took some people away, while they left others. My son was put in a car in front of me; I saw them take him, but I have no idea what became of him that day.
Mr Abdel Gahni Natat’s son was 22 years old at the time.
The above text is an extract from the Complaint lodged in Belgium against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Amos Yaron and other Israelis and Lebanese responsible for the massacre. The full text of the Complaint can be found in the section of this website titled The Case Against The Accused.
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