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water cannon at demonstrators protesting against what they call Lebanon's "political dysfunction". About 200 youths, some wearing scarves or masks to cover their faces, threw stones and bottles filled with sand at police and tried to pull down security barricades. Some demonstrators burnt fires. A tree next to a church was set ablaze, road signs were pulled from the ground and shop fronts smashed.
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after the demonstration degenerated in street fighting between protesters and law enforcement. The Lebanese Red Cross said it treated 402 people in Sunday's protest. About 40 people were taken to hospital. Ambulances ferried out casualties after security forces fired tear gas, rubber bullets and
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Despite knowing of the closure, the Lebanese government had no plan in place for dealing with the waste. This led waste contractors to suspend collection in July causing waste to pile up around the city. On 27 August, Sukleen restarted collection but with no functioning dump sites, the waste was
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The protest were categorized by comical slogans and imaginative chants which mostly linked political figures to the crisis. However, protesters were reported shouting a number of chants made popular during the
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Lebanese took to the streets to manifest against the government's corruption. It began as small protest, but it has soon proved to become an uprising, with many protesters calling for a revolution.
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While the protests began over the piles of trash around Beirut and the Mount Lebanon region, they expanded to issues of civil representation, corruption and government inefficiency.
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authorities in September 2015. The Euro-med called for quick solutions to end the problem by providing a good public-health services which the residents of Lebanon deserve.
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Protesters blamed Lebanese leaders, who according to them, did not have a long-term vision to solve the ecological issues affecting Lebanon. See
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The protest, organized by an online group "You Stink!" along with other civil society groups, attracted an estimated
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political bickering that has kept Lebanon without a president from 2014 to 2016
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The ‘National Strategy’ for waste management, drawn up in the years after the
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closure of the Beirut and Mount Lebanon region waste dump in Naameh
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stored under bridges and on empty lots around the capital.
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express their support of the 2015 Lebanese protests in
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Other issues include daily electricity blackouts, and
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Lebanon
Sectarianism
Corruption
Unemployment
Demonstrations
Sit-ins
Self-immolation
Government of Lebanon
Internal Security Forces
Tammam Salam
Nohad Machnouk
Mohammad Machnouk

ريحتكم
closure of the Beirut and Mount Lebanon region waste dump in Naameh
Arab Spring
Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam
Beirut Madinati
Lebanese civil war
Marine environmental issues in Lebanon

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