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Helping Lebanon's torture victims
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6-24-2008 11:09 AM
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The idea is to bring everything people may need under one roof. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7471120.stm"><P>Here, they can get legal and financial advice. They are also offered medical treatment for their physical and mental wounds. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7471120.stm"><P>Some of the people who come to the centre experienced cruel treatment in detention during the civil war in Lebanon, which ended in 1990. Others say they were tortured much more recently. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7471120.stm"><P>"There is nothing worse you can do than torture someone," says Cynthia Petrigh, the director of the centre. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7471120.stm"><P>"But we are here to help the worst-off. 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