As Beirut mourns its dead and grapples with the scale of rebuilding after this week's massive blast, some Lebanese activists planned to demonstrate in the city on Saturday, angered by the government's response to the disaster.
BEIRUT - As Beirut mourns its dead and grapples with the scale of rebuilding after this week’s massive blast, some Lebanese activists planned to demonstrate in the city on Saturday, angered by the government’s response to the disaster.
Some residents, struggling to clean up shattered homes, complain the state they see as corrupt - there had been months of protests against the government’s handling of a deep economic crisis before this week’s disaster - has let them down again.“The people are doing your work, shame,” someone wrote on the dust covering a car window, referring to Lebanese leaders.
“There is really nothing we can do. We can’t afford to rebuild and no one is helping us,” he said, standing beside a large teddy bear that was blown across his home, and a damaged photograph of him and his wife. “We have given people initial help but we don’t know what we can do for families in the future. It requires major projects,” she said.
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