A blog by someone new to blogging, set in Beirut, by someone new to Beirut.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

More pictures of Sunday...





I've uploaded some more pictures of Sunday. As I wasn't venturing out, they are all taken from different vantage points from the flat. They show men being chased by the army, people gathering in Sassine Square, and the scenes in my road after the police and army had closed off Sassine Square to prevent counter demonstrations. It is certainly a lot quieter now. I'm going to head past the Danish Consulate today to see the damage (what a voyeur!!) but it is likely that there will be a few more demonstrations over the next few weeks. There was one yesterday, for example, by some Christians. However, the fact that a lot of the more violent demonstrators were not Lebanese (many were Syrian, Palestinian or Bedouin - no nationality) seems to confirm the fact in a lot of people's minds that it was a minority of troublemakers, out to discredit the Lebanese government and give an impression of instability, who began the riots on Sunday.

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