- The third witness for the prosecution in Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's war crimes trial has been murdered in Brazil.
- A third witness for the prosecution in the case charging
Ariel Sharon, the current Israeli prime minister, with war crimes was killed
in Brazil on March 7.
Michael Nassar, 39, is the third former Lebanese militia fighter to die
this year who had command-level knowledge of the 1982 massacre of some
2,500 Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut.
Nassar and his wife, Marie, 31, were shot by masked assailants with silencer-equipped
pistols at a gas station in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as they waited to repair
a tire, which had been punctured as they drove through a tunnel.
A nephew of the former commander of Israel's proxy army, the South Lebanon
Army, Nassar had been an associate of Elie Hobeika, the former Phalangist
leader who died in a January car bombing in Beirut. Nassar had made a fortune
selling weapons to Croatian forces.
The first former associate of Hobeika to be killed was Jean Ghanem, who
drove his car into a tree on New Year's Day. He died after being in a coma
for two weeks.
Nassar had called a friend because men in a car were following him. He
called again to report that the pursuers seemed to have vanished, when
they suddenly reappeared and fired five bullets into Nassar and seven into
his wife.
A Belgian court recently postponed its decision over whether to indict
Sharon for his role in the massacres until May 15. However, key witnesses
for the prosecution are disappearing by the week.
A Lebanese witness said recently that dozens of Palestinians who survived
the massacres were executed at a former barracks near Jounieh, north of
Beirut, after being held in containers for two weeks.
Israeli troops reportedly handed the Palestinian prisoners over to the
Phalangists to be killed. Britain s newspaper, The Independent, according
to its correspondent Robert Fisk, knows the location of their mass grave.
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