Five injured Lebanese protesters with eye patches and bandaged faces recently huddled in a circle in a Beirut hospital ward, pledging that they’ll be back in the streets soon
At a Beirut hospital ward, five Lebanese protesters with bandaged eyes and faces huddled in a circle, their arms wrapped around each other, and they vowed to be back on the streets soon, despite their wounds from recent clashes with police.Such resolve by some protesters signals that demands for sweeping government reforms won’t be squashed easily, even as security forces throw up cement barriers and resort to more violent means of crowd control, such as rubber bullets.
The violence in Lebanon has ebbed since then, particularly since a new government was formed on Jan. 21 and protesters take stock. Although they reject the new Cabinet, some protesters believe it should be given a chance to enact urgent reforms to avoid complete collapse amid a crippling economic and financial crisis. Others have been discouraged and disgusted by the rioting and the violence.
Not everyone was as lucky. With him in the same ward were four other young men, each with an eye bandaged over, waiting for word if they would keep their sight. He said it’s worth losing his eye “for the nation” and was keen to return to the streets. The crumbling economy has hit him hard: He dropped out of school because his family couldn’t afford tuition, and the struggling restaurant where he worked fired him.Francis and his mother debated whether he’d go back to protests, but she soon relented. Resigned, she forced a wry grin and nodded, “He will return.
On Jan. 18, he confronted police at a roadblock on a major highway linking Beirut with the south. At the front lines of clashes, he was shot twice in the leg with rubber bullets. Falling to the ground, he noticed a bomb rolling in his direction.
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