Israel Declines to Study Rabin Tie to Beatings
New York Times - July 12, 1990
Israel's Parliament decided today not to investigate charges that former Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin [later Prime Minister] ordered soldiers to break the bones of Arab militants at the beginning of the Palestinian uprising...
.....Soldiers testifying at Colonel Meir's trial said Mr. Rabin and other senior commanders told them privately that beatings should be used to punish Arabs known to be troublemakers.
...a company commander under Colonel Meir, testified in April that he was told by Colonel Meir to ''break the arms and legs'' of Arabs ''because the detention camps are full.'' Full story
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