The 'Disappeared' of Lebanon
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Thousands of people went missing during Lebanon's long and brutal civil war. But in 1982 a group of women started an organisation to try to track down their family members. Nidale Abou Mrad has been speaking to Wadad Halawani whose husband was taken from their home by two gunmen and never came back.
Photo: West Beirut under shellfire in 1982.(Credit:Domnique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Cladie Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to |
| 0:32.1 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:36.5 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:41.5 | telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 0:43.7 | Cladie Aide! |
| 0:45.7 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:48.2 | Lovely. |
| 0:49.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:51.2 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:54.7 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello you're |
| 1:00.2 | listening to the witness podcast on the BBC World Service, history told by the people who are there. |
| 1:06.5 | I am Niedala Bumrad and today we're going back to 1982 |
| 1:11.5 | when hundreds of women marched through Central Beirut, calling for the return of the relatives |
| 1:17.5 | who had gone missing during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War. |
| 1:21.6 | I've been speaking to Adat Halawani who says she can still |
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