Lebanon's Foreign Minister vows his country won't be 'replaced' with 'refugees and the corrupt', provoking shock online.
: “The corrupt choose to be corrupt, the displaced and refugees don’t choose to be so, there’s a difference”.: “Those who want to learn about racism and arrogance follow you, where is the tolerance and humanity?”Bassil is the son-in-law of Lebanese President Michel Aoun, and the leader of the Lebanese Free Patriotic Movement, the largest political party in Lebanon’s parliament.
The minister is fiercely opposed to the movement of Syrians into Lebanon and has previously called on refugees to return home. In January, he asked forAccording to activists, refugees in Lebanon are subject to widespread exploitation and discrimination, which is oftenLebanon has become the choice destination for Syrian refugees due to its proximity and the ease of entering the country for Syrian nationals.
The two states have had close ties for much of their history and many Syrians worked in Lebanon before the Syrian Civil War began in 2011. The number of arrivals has placed an upward pressure on prices and strained public services, but a majority of Syrians fear government repression or continued conflict should they decide to return home., Lebanon has the second largest Syrian refugee population in the world, just after Turkey with 3.4 million people, and before Jordan with 660,000 people.
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