Lebanese Take To Streets Asking America To Keep Out Of Governance
Pro- Hezbollah protestors could be seen chanting anti American slogans outside the US Embassy in Lebanon recently. The protestors marched into Awkar, 11kms from Beirut and were protesting against US meddling with their government affairs. The demonstrators were seen burning US and Israeli flags with some trying to cut the barbed wire to break through the security cordon. This has led to riots and the crowd had to be dispersed by internal security forces with tear gas. Participants included young men from the Communist Party, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and some Palestinian refugees participating in a demonstration where they gave out a message of “resistance and non conformity to US meddling expressed by former US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman.” Protests under a solid civil disobedience movement have been going on in Lebanon. Various protests are being seen across the country that are demanding the right to a proper government representation that works in favour of the...