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Slim had, in the days before the killing, stated that
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Slim's project Hayya Bina (HB), meaning "Let’s Go", is an initiative which began during the 2005 parliamentary elections in
Lebanon with the aim of promoting citizen involvement in the political process and opposing Lebanon's sectarian system. Slim himself compared the religiously based sectarian
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raised concerns about the "flawed" investigation, citing evidence including the ISF's failure to secure the crime scene, potentially leading to the contamination of evidence. Slim's family criticised that the investigation was initially led by local officers in
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substantive nodes, such as human rights, civics, workplace, and around-the-home vocabulary. The program's cross-regional emphasis has also enabled rural teachers who have never left their villages to travel across the country for teacher training programs.
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Slim's office at UMAM with his jackets still on the wardrobe as he left them before his assassination. To the right is a bullet-riddled lamppost that used to stand at the green line during
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later deleted the message and denied that he had been referring to Slim. Hezbollah condemned the killing, denied any involvement and called for an immediate investigation.
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