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Tribute to minesweeper Belgian Stefaan Vanpetghem



two poets (one Lebanese and one Belgian) team up to make a Tribute to the Adjutant Stefaan Vanpeteghem fell in the hills of southern Lebanon with his life for our children and their Lebanese parents can continue to reap the olive groves safe.


Under the sky of the Cedars of Lebanon

Sun cedars seemed unreal
For the omens were sacrificial
But the sky blue heaven stooped
Welcoming the peak of an unusual
Anxious Knight walked into the duel
A Wealth (2) the expected ceremonial

The contention was not a land of culture
Just a grazing field
Lost in the hills of South Lebanon
which Fate had placed the trap delaying
Preux Minesweeper seen the hellish
S 'bowed before the goddess of evil
Dumped by rogue meteor
Placed there as offering innocent


The explosion feared, the wave furibarde
claimed the grim reaper (3) Judgement
time hours
Cuts Over reluctantly
Concha Minesweeper
Fallen the field of honor
In vain Earth Peace
"Your sacrifice is vain man of peace"


(1). Amateur poem in honor of the Adjutant Minesweeper Stefan Vanpeleghem member of the detachment of the Belgian UN force in southern Lebanon. Fallen Worship, 3 September 2008 1225 hrs 3 km from the Israeli border town of Ajt
Arun (2) type of M77 submunition Israeli manufacture.
(3) mythical character: Death represented by a skeleton with a sickle. "
Emile Tomboy

September 22, 2008


"When love beckons to you follow the.
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him.
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him.
While his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste your gardens.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.


(Canna cave in southern Lebanon)


Just as it makes you grow, your pruning. Similarly
he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.


He beats you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant.
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. "

Khalil Gibran
The deminer
Stefaan Vanpeteghem comes from the Department removal and destruction of explosive devices (ETS) Poelkapelle. It was part of the Belgian detachment BELUFIL VI in Lebanon. Fallen Worship, 3 September 2008 1225 hrs 3 km from the Israeli border town of Ajt Arun
Demining is one of the main tasks of the Belgian detachment. Since the arrival of Belgian miners in 2006, about 14,000 unexploded ordnance have been dismantled.
(NCC Brigadier General Michel WOUTERS and Colonel Dany De Wolf corps commander BELUFIL VI)

few days ago I shared a meal at home with Warrant Vanpeteghem, we prepare a program to support municipalities to work on cleaning up bombs inaccessible to demining NGOs. You should know that uses Belufil whenever a bomb is deeply buried (sometimes to eight meters deep).


(Partner HAMAP stop landmines, I just pay tribute to Stefan)


Stefaan intervened that day alone, his colleagues and two teams, one of protection and other medical remained at a distance. The submunition, type M-77 and Israeli construction has exploded during handling.
To continue reading the article, see
BELUFIL: Tribute to Ibrahim El Ali Belgian Luxembourg contingent of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL.

Or http://fondation-elali.blogspot.com/2007/07/hommage-ladjudant-eric-lalloyeau-le.html


ibrahim.el.ali @ gmail.com