Khiam

Chiyam (Arabic الخيام al - Chiyām, DMG al - Hiyam; often the case Khiam known) is a village in southern Lebanon near Nabataea.

Built for strategic reasons a military shantytown - On a hill near Chiyams was during the French Mandate period (1943 1920). Since 1943 the Lebanese army base, she fell after the end of the Lebanese civil war and the formal withdrawal of the Israeli army ( Tzahal ) in 1985 under the control of the South Lebanon Army (SLA ), which she detention and interrogation center transformed into a.

Until the final withdrawal of Israel from him since March 14, 1978 ( Operation Litani ) occupied southern Lebanon in May 2000 and the ensuing collapse of the SLA remained the center in operation. In his action against Lebanese civilians Chiyam was known for torture and unacceptable prison conditions. Under the pressure of Israeli lawyers and the public, the ICRC was able to serve from 1995 without trial detainees and detention facilities cause.

Israel itself has denied being involved in the activities in Chiyam, and declared to have passed the center in 1988. However, an Affidavit of Tzahal - Brigadier General Dan Chalutz for the Israeli Defense Ministry confirmed the significant participation of Israel - including training measures and salaries for the interrogator.

The prison was converted in 2000 from the dominant in southern Lebanon Hezbollah for " memorial to the resistance against the occupation " and visited in 2006 on the anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese President Émile Lahoud.

During the Lebanon War in 2006, a large part of the camp as well as the three-story building was destroyed in the UNTSO Chiyam on 26 July by Israeli air attacks, with four soldiers of the UN died.

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