Crisis in Lebanon

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Feanor

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Following the giant explosion in the Beirut port, large civil disturbances have broken out in the city, with protesters seizing government buildings, as well as a building belonging to the banking association. So far the police has been unable to stop them, and army troops have moved into the city. Reportedly as many as 2000 troops have entered the city. There are also unsubstantiated reports of some of the protesters burning documents in the captured buildings.

On a personal note the scale, speed, and intensity with which the situation exploded suggests that either there were significant tensions prior to this, and the explosion was merely the factor that set them off, or that there were plans in place to use large scale civil disturbance to bring significant political change to Lebanon. It's of course possible that both are true.


I'm linking below to the thread about the explosion in general for reference.

 
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