Souha Bechara

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Souha Fawaz Bechara (born June 15, 1967 in Beirut ) ( Arabic  : سهى فواز بشارة, also known as Souha Bechara or Soha Bechara ) is a woman from Lebanon who committed an assassination attempt on General Antoine Lahad .

Life

Early years

Souha grew up in an Orthodox Christian family . Her father, Fawaz Bechara, is a member of the Lebanese Communist Party , which Souha joined in 1982 at the age of only fifteen without her parents' knowledge. In that year, Israel's invasion of Lebanon took place (see Lebanon War 1982 ). In response to the destruction of her homeland as a result of the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasion, Souha left college and joined the resistance in 1987.

Assassination attempt and imprisonment

The Maronite Lahad commanded the then South Lebanese Army , which fought together with the Israeli army against the PLO, the Amal militia, the Syrian Army and Hezbollah during the occupation of southern Lebanon .

In order to kill Lahad, she applied to be an aerobics instructor with his wife Victoria and established closer contact with family members. On the evening of the attack, November 17, 1988, Souha was invited to tea by Lahad's wife and she stayed until Lahad's arrival. When she was packing her things to leave, she shot Lahad with a revolver of caliber 5.45 mm twice in the chest and once in his leg. Lahad was admitted to hospital where he spent eight weeks. His right arm was unable to move after various health problems.

Souha was captured by Lahad units and handed over to the Israeli forces. Eventually she was sent to Chiyam Prison in southern Lebanon, where she was detained for ten years, including six years in solitary confinement. She was tortured repeatedly in the prison . In 1998 she was released.

additional

  • Her autobiography Résistante about her life in Lebanon before and after the attack was published in the French original in 2000. In 2001 the book (as the author Suha Bechara) was published in German by Hugendubel-Verlag under the title Ten Years of My Life for the Freedom of My Country and later also in English ( Resistance: My Life for Lebanon )
  • In 2003 the director Wajdi Mouawad staged the play Incendies (German: Burns ) based on your book
  • In 2009, Souha Bechara's life story was filmed in French in the feature film The Woman Who Sings - Incendies by the Canadian director Denis Villeneuve . 2010 this film was on the international film festival in Toronto named best Canadian feature film and for the 2011 Oscar for best foreign language film nominated

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards and nominations in the IMDB
  2. ^ Website of the book publisher with the original edition from 2000 (French / English)
personal data
SURNAME Bechara, Souha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bechara, Souha Fawaz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese assassin
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut