On this day 25 years ago, the Lebanese communist resistance fighter Soha
Bechara was released from captivity at the El-Khiam torture and
interrogation center where she had been detained for ten years, six
years of those years were spent in isolation detention.
She was
jailed for an attempt to assassinate Antoine Lahad in 1988, the head of
the South Lebanon Army – an Israeli-backed proxy militia that terrorized
South Lebanon during the Israeli occupation. Bechara is a Lebanese icon
and posters featuring her were seen all around downtown Beirut in the
early 1990s.
Bechara joined the Lebanese Communist Party in 1982
when she was 15 – the year that Israel invaded Lebanon – and was
involved in various resistance activities. Bechara shot Lahad twice with
a 5.45 mm revolver, once in the chest and once in the shoulder.
Bechara
was released from El-Khiam in 1998, following international pressure.
Two years after her release, the Israeli occupation of Lebanon ended and
El-Khiam was turned into a museum.
posted Sep 3, 2023 on YouTube and Sep 3, 2024 on Odysee.com
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