Beirut to Bosnia: Muslims and the West Tape 1 - The Martyr's Smile-Parts One, Two and Three

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Box 329, Video-cassette ME143, Box 346, Video-cassette ME143

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NTSC VHS [TRT:0:55:00] (2 copies)

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1. Producer: A Chameleon/Barraclough Carey. Production for Channer Four and Discovery Channel
2. Original Credits: Written and Presented by Robert Fisk. Producer Dennis Walsh. Director Michael Dutfield. Archive: NBC, BBC, INA.
3. A personal journey by Robert Fisk of the Independent. The story begins in Beirut Lebanon, tracks the hatred of Muslims for the West. Talks to mothers of martyrs, sons who have died fighting the Israeli army. Fisk travels to Baalbek to look at the influence of the Iranian revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini on the Hezbollah party in Lebanon. Documents a Hezbollah rally, includes the change that the Israeli invasion had on the violence in the regions, many Lebanese dying with weapons supplied by America, including children killed by phosphorus bombs. Also includes reports on the massacres at Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps. Fisk details his own personal eyewitness encounter of the camps right after the massacre, including photos. Fisk travels to southern Beirut to interview Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of the Hezbollah party. Fisk contrasts the fact that the West concentrates on the several Western hostages taken in kidnappings when over 17,000 Lebanese were kidnapping and many thousands of these were murdered. Interview with Anis Nakash, attempted to assassinate the Shah's prime minister exiled in London in 1980. He discussed the role of the West in the Middle East and the disregard for innocent people in the Middle East. Details the occupation of southern Lebanon by the Israelis and the constant battles between the Israeli government and innocent civilians in this occupied region. Includes footage of Hezbollah fighters attacking an Israeli post. UN field peacekeepers detail Israeli attacks on innocent villages. Fisk talks about notorious Al Khiam prison, which houses Lebanese prisoners, where torture according to Amnesty International is routine. The prison is run by Lebanese Christian proxy fighters for Israel. Part three details the killing of civilians by Israel in retaliation for attacks on their military occupation forces in the occupied part of southern Lebanon. Film also includes footage taken in Lebanese hospitals detailing the injuries on civilians, victims of shelling in southern Lebanon, including children. Film also details the Shi'ite celebration of the martyrdom of Hussein, son of Ali, a celebration often bloody in acted ritual and the connection to the victim consciousness of the Shiites of Lebanon.

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