page_title: Khiam detention center
hierarchical_section_title: Khiam detention center
caption_attribution_description: English: Al Khiam detention camp. Southern Lebanon, 2004. Photo by Bertil Videt.
context_page_description: The Khiam Detention Center, located near Khiam, Lebanon, was a French army barracks complex originally built in the 1930s. It became a base for the Lebanese army before falling under control of the South Lebanon Army, an Israeli-backed breakaway group of soldiers formed during the Lebanese civil war. In 1985 the base was converted into a prison camp was used for torture and remained in use until Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, and the subsequent collapse of the SLA. After the withdrawal, the prison camp was preserved in the condition it was abandoned and converted into a museum by the Lebanese government.
  During the 2006 Lebanon War, the Israeli Air Force bombed and destroyed the museum, allegedly to hide the evidence of torture and mistreatment used there.
  Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported the use of torture and other serious human rights abuses in the facility.
context_section_description: The Khiam Detention Center, located near Khiam, Lebanon, was a French army barracks complex originally built in the 1930s. It became a base for the Lebanese army before falling under control of the South Lebanon Army (SLA), an Israeli-backed breakaway group of soldiers formed during the Lebanese civil war.  In 1985 the base was converted into a prison camp was used for torture and remained in use until Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, and the subsequent collapse of the SLA. After the withdrawal, the prison camp was preserved in the condition it was abandoned and converted into a museum by the Lebanese government.
  During the 2006 Lebanon War, the Israeli Air Force bombed and destroyed the museum, allegedly to hide the evidence of torture and mistreatment used there.
  Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported the use of torture and other serious human rights abuses in the facility.
caption: Al Khiam detention camp. Southern Lebanon, 2004.
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