Title: Lebanese protest still ongoing, social distancing style Post by: PSOL on January 18, 2020, 03:15:15 PM https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/dozens-injured-as-security-forces-clash-with-protesters-in-beirut-idUSKBN1ZH0FX
Quote ... Witnesses said riot police fired rubber bullets and used water cannons in the commercial district on Saturday night. Smoke billowed out of tear gas canisters encircling protesters as ambulances sped through the streets of the capital. President Michel Aoun ordered the country’s army and security commanders to restore calm. Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as premier in October, said the clashes threatened civil peace. “It is an insane, suspicious and rejected scene,” he tweeted. ... Title: Re: Lebanese protest still ongoing, social distancing style Post by: PSOL on April 21, 2020, 06:04:52 PM https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-protests/lebanese-protesters-return-to-streets-in-car-convoys-amid-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN2232WK
Quote ... ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿Men and women popped out of their car windows, waving Lebanese flags and chanting “revolution”, protesting in their vehicles to maintain physical distance as the country combats the outbreak of the highly contagious coronavirus. ... “No one has a job anymore...Salaries keep doing down. We’re in the streets because nothing has changed since we left,” said Ali Haidar, a protester wearing a face mask in central Beirut. “The state left us with two choices: we either die from hunger or we die from the disease...Let us at least die taking a stand.” Title: Re: Lebanese protest still ongoing, social distancing style Post by: Umlilo on April 21, 2020, 10:17:59 PM I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle.
My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries. Title: Re: Lebanese protest still ongoing, social distancing style Post by: PSOL on April 21, 2020, 10:19:50 PM I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle. My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries. Title: Re: Lebanese protest still ongoing, social distancing style Post by: Umlilo on April 21, 2020, 11:50:12 PM I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle. My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries. Title: Re: Lebanese protest still ongoing, social distancing style Post by: PSOL on April 21, 2020, 11:54:10 PM I don't think there's any hope there. Most people just listen to whatever their za3im tells them. Maybe they wouldn't rely so much on them if the government could actually take care of the needs of its people, but there's no way for that to happen if people just continue to vote how they're told to. It's a vicious cycle. My conclusion is that Lebanon's system of state-sanctioned sectarianism is a cancer, and shouldn't be emulated by other countries. |