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May 13, 2008
The
Report
May 7, 2008 a new
chapter in the chapters of the ambulant bloody war in Lebanon but certainly
more violent than Jan 23 and 25, 2007 and January 27, 2008.
The Wednesday strike and the demand demonstration turned into blocking roads,
burning tires, closing the airport, sticks, Molotov hand grenades, ambulant paradoxes,
throwing grenades, exchange of fire, sniper bullets, injured journalists,
wounded soldiers, ambulances and civil defense, strike, beats and conflict.
If the spate of violence was a response to the government decisions on the
telecommunications network of the resistance and the dismissing of the
airport's security chief as announced by the opposition, this new wave of
violence has reaped about 300 dead and injured as well as massive damage to
properties, shops, cars and houses, during which serious human rights
violations were committed and was represented by the renewal of kidnappings
according to one's identity and terrorizing citizens in all areas by firing
bullets and bomb, killing many civilians with reckless bullets, preventing
the movement of citizens due to cut roads and closure of the airport,
muzzling the media group of the Future Movement and the burning of some,
destroying some of the social and educational institutions, sacrilege and
abuse of religious institutions, the infringement on houses of some deputies
from the opposition and the government supporters, as well as many other
ignominious practices that paid its price the citizens staying at their homes
in Beirut, the north, the Bekaa and the mountains, but the most dangerous in
this new bloody chapter of the Lebanese crisis is the loose of the sectarian
impulses and the native fighting between the burghers of the same town, and
sometimes of the same building and the same street, which threatens into a
serious sectarian classification that was not witnessed during the civil war
in 1975.
The acute political crisis and the absence of a national unified speech
fractured the social and national structure of the Lebanese society, and if
the properties, cars, buildings and all material losses could be compensated,
but there is a severe psychological crisis lying in the selfsame of the
citizens as well as a serious sectarian rift that will have devastating
consequences especially in Beirut due to the malpractices against the
citizens.
The cease-fire and withdrawal of armed manifestations from Beirut and other
areas is very important for the return of normalcy to the capital, but the
depth of the wounds of this war can not be healed, and we will see the birth
of a new violent, aggressive generation, predecessor to the other, of course,
not the other opinion, but the other belief and other sect, and the most
serious will be among young people and children. Khiam Center calls out loud
and away from the two sides of conflict, the government supporters and the
opposition, to abide by the international laws and the expulsion of civilians
from armed conflicts and to respect public freedoms and the other opinion and
to be away from the language of violence and the in-resorting to arms to
resolve political differences. KRC also calls on the civil society bodies to
launch a media campaign and a variety of activities to renounce sectarianism
to consider the sectarian incitation, from any party, a crime against the
homeland and the citizen, calling the parliament to approve a law
criminalizing and prohibiting sectarian prejudices and punishing its
promoters considering them as outlaws and criminals of war.
Khiam Center monitored the diary of the futilitarian war, which showed the
gravity of the violations of human rights on both sides; the government
supporters and the opposition, and it is as follows:
Wednesday, May 7:
- Closing the road to the airport that led to the suspension of the
navigation traffic because of the difficulty of arrival and exit of
passengers to and from the airport. And in Cyprus airport, hundreds of
Lebanese were restrained waiting for the resumption of the planes traveling
to Beirut.
- Some centres belonging to the Islamic Orphanage institution (Dar Al-Aytam
Al-Islamiyya) in Beirut for the attacks through the process of control over
the city by opposition members. In the night of May 7-8, and according to the
General Director of the institution, Mohammed Barakat, a shell was fired
directly hitting the main entrance of the Islamic Orphanage.
- The clashes between the opposition and the pro-government forces in Noueiri
area in Beirut resulted in the evacuation of the members of the Future
Movement from their center and wounding more than 30 people, two of them died
from bullets.
- A clash with the hands and sticks occurred between the opposition
supporters and the Future Movement in Corniche Al-Mazraa area led to the
army's intervention assigning a demarcation line extended from Al-Barbir to
Mar Elias and Musaitbah areas, via Corniche Al-Mazraa, Ras Al-Nabaa and
Al-Basta.
- The Corniche Al-Mazraa clash ended in the delirium of a soldier against
Al-Manar television cameraman, Said Beiruti, who got a blow on the head with
singlestick at the sight of everyone which led the opposition supporters to
throw stones at the army and all those around Beiruti, where one stone hit
the camera of another Al-Manar television cameraman.
- In Al-Mazraa area as well, there was the exposure of two press
photographers from Al-Balad newspaper, Wadih Shilink and Mohammed Ahmad, to
beatings by opposition members while they were covering the proceedings of
the clashes.
- Since the first day, Al-Arabiyya satellite reporters were exposed to
harassment from the opposition supporters while they were in the line of duty.
- An anonymous threw a stun grenade in Corniche Al-Mazraa where five people
were slightly injured, two soldiers and 3 civilians.
- An army patrol arrested 4 gunmen in Ras Al-Nabaa, in light of the spread of
rumors about snipers deployed in the streets.
- Clashes in Wata Al-Musaitbah between opposition supporters and the
Progressive Socialist Party when a convoy of motorcycles belonging to the
opposition forces passed in the area, where a friction happened between the
cyclists and a number of residents of the area belonging mostly to the
Progressive Socialist Party.
- Information was spread and registered by more than one security apparatus
on the distribution of weapons in areas of the neighborhood of Al-Lija,
Barbour, Khandak Ghameek and Tareek Al-Jdeedeh.
- Clouds of smoke rose in the sky of Beirut due to burning of tyres and
greenhouses waste, and «mountains» of dust from old cars, obstacles and sand
arouse in a number of streets, especially towards the airport and the port of
Beirut.
- The first day clashes have left more than 45 wounded, 5 of them from
dumping the stun grenade and two from bullets, while others as a result of
beatings with sticks, knives and sharp instruments, as well as the burning of
about ten cars in Nueiri area. And the day ended with the arrest of the army
for more than 35 people, including 21 who were inside the Future Movement
center in Nueiri.
- In the towns of Saadnayel, Talbaya and Jalala, the people cut the main road
in Middle Bekaa and the residents of Saadnayel and Talbayaand cut the road
with burning tyres.
Thursday, May 8:
- Members of the Future Movement raise a barrier upon Al-Mghayriyyeh town
(Shuf district) where its road must be passed when coming from of Beirut
after cutting the coast road. These premeditated to stopping the passers-by
according to the symbol on their car plate which refers to their areas and
sectarian affiliations. They terrified the passers-by and beat them with
rifle butts, attacked them, and kidnapped eight, among them: Elias Mansur and
Rabih Al-Shabab who were detained in a house covering them with blankets so
as not to see and talk with each other, until Rabih was able, via his mobile
phone, to inform his father about his abduction, who in turn informed the
Lebanese army who raided the place and released the detainees but the
kidnappers managed to escape.
- Rola Hussein Abouhmdan, Suheir Dandash, Hussein Mihyiddine, Ragheda
AbdelHady Rahim and Abbas Huseein Fawwaz paid the tax of the sedition bullets
that destroyed the towns of Saadnayel and Talbaya.
- Young men from the Middle Bekaa descended and worked on the closure of many
roads and most important, the international road towards the Syrian capital.
- Supporters of the Progressive Socialist Party and the future Movement cut
off the coastal road at Jiyah, Naameh and Wadi Al-Zayyneh with tyres, sand
barriers and obstacles, these roads that link the capital Beirut with the
south, and placed rocks and stones and burned rubber tyres in the center of
the road on both directions.
- Future Movement supporters gathered at the main crossroads linking the
Middle Bekaa with the South across the western Bekaa and Rashaya and burnt
rubber tyres amid roads and arouse the dirt obstacles and prevented cars and
buses and all means of transport from crossing in both directions in response
to cutting the airport road.
- The medical and security sources said that at least eight people were
killed this day and dozens were injured in armed clashes that took place
between supporters of the majority and the opposition.
- Storming into the Hariri Educational Foundation in Ramlet Al-Bayda.
- The Chief of the Public Relations Division of the Directorate General of
Internal Security Forces, issued the following: On 7 and 8/5/2008 armed
persons stole about 109 reserved long-standing cars (for the judiciary), from
a garage for booking of cars and motorbikes in Shatila area, for use of
unknown aims and objectives. Investigations are under way under the
supervision of the relevant court.
Friday, May 9:
- Dozens of citizens stormed into Dar Al-Iftaa Al-Jaafari, in Tyr, headed by
Sayyid Ali Al Amin, who is close to the pro-government forces, and they
deployed inside it before they closed it as a protest against his opinions
that are against the opposition.
- The citizens evacuated Tareek Al-Jdeedeh, in the morning, in an attempt to
neutralize the area from the conflict and the Lebanese army entered the area.
- One of the guards of the headquarters of the Lebanese Parliament's
President in Ain Al-Teeneh, Mahmoud Said Taha, was killed because of bullets
that hit him from unidentified sides during his duty.
- In Clemenceau, where the headquarters of MP Walid Jumblatt, the spread of
masked gunmen roaming the vicinity of the area emerged, and intent at some
times to check the identities of passers-by.
- The International Red Cross counted the death of at least 13 and wounding
more than 45 in the incidents in the capital since Wednesday morning.
- Clashes took place in Ras Al-Jabal area between armed supporters of the
Progressive Socialist Party from Aley city and other «Hezbollah» and Amal
Movement supporters from the towns of Keifoun and Qamatieh, using missiles
and medium weapons and led to the death of the young man, Ahmed Amory (18
years) When he was in his house, and injuring eight of the Progressive
Socialist Party, were known from them: Firas Ghanam and Nabil Gharzeddine.
- Three young men from Minyeh from the Future Movement supporters were killed
in Beirut during military confrontations, they are: Abdou Mustafa Skaf, Hussein
Alam Eddine and Tawfiq Hamed.
- All the media of the Future, the visual (television and satellite), the
audio (Radio Orient) and the written (Al-Mustaqbal Newspaper), stopped
working this morning after receiving threats from opposition members who threatened
to storm into it if it did not stop broadcasting and they sent their threat
through the Army. But armed clashes occurred in the building of the newspaper
and led to the burning of the fourth floor of it. In addition to this, the
Future archive was destroyed.
- Attacks also happened on Al-Shiraa magazine and Al-Liwaa newspaper as well
as Sivan Armenian radio.
- The clashes between opposition parties and mambers of Future Movement in
Shuwaifat led to the death of two members from the Democratic Party headed by
former minister Talal Arslan after they were shot from one of the buildings
on four young men from the party who were in a car, killing two of them.
- The clashes between the towns of Saadnayel and Talbaya damaged some houses
and injured three who were transferred to Bekaa hospital in Teanayl, they
were Ahmed Shehada wounded because of a bullet in his shoulder, Walid Ahmad
with a bullet in his left foot and Manal Ahmed with various injuries in her
face by scattering glass.
- A long-living tree in Talbaya saved Sabaa Al-Hourani family, where it
formed a barricade in the face of an «RPG» shell, causing the cutting of the
tree and breaking the glass house of Al-Hourani. Another missile also fell
near the house caused damages in the public road.
- Some houses in the town of Talbaya were damaged and among their owners were
known: Mohammed Taktak, Khalil and Adnan and Youssef Saiyfan.
- A security tension occurred in the town of Barr Elias between members of
Future Movement supporters and the member of Arrajy Family, a soldier in the
Lebanese army, Abdullah Ahmar, was injured in his left shoulder due to a stun
grenade.
- At the junction of Deir Zannoun-Barr Elias and upon the impact of the
exchange of fire between unidentified men from the town of Barr Elias and
others of Zeidan family (pro-Hezbollah), Amena Nassif was injured while she
was inside her shop on the public highway in Barr Elias, she was shot in the
head and transferred to Bekaa hospital in Tenayl, but she died later on
affected from her injuries. Hasan Al-Hujjeiry was also wounded on Barr Elias
road with a bullet in his haunch. Bekaa Hospital received a number of
injuries that suffered attacks on the various Bekaa roads, known from them:
the child Abdul Hadi, born in 1999, and Mohamed Ismail who was beaten on his
forehead, as well as Mohammed Ali Ahmed who suffered various injuries.
- Upon the background of collecting the centers, in Sidon, of the Future
Movement by the Lebanese Army, intensive gunfire occurred and the sound of
explosions was heard caused by «B 7» shells, which led to the death of Dr.
Saber Kadiri and his wife, and their daughter was wounded while they were
trying to escape by car from their house which is adjacent to the site of the
shooting, in addition to the wounding of three others.
- The operations room in the Directorate General of Internal Security Forces
recorded the killing of 18 fighters and civilians since the morning of May 8,
2008, including 4 unknown. They are: Mahmoud Taha, Amal Baydoun, Haitham
Tabbara, Mohammed Homsi, Nabil Abul-Enein, Abdo Skaf, Salwa Ghandour, Ziad
Ghalayini, Mustafa Itani, Ali Mohammediyyeh, Karam Nasser, Amena Nasif, Alaa
Shaaban, Afif Nasr. Furthermore, the occurrence of some 54 wounded.
Saturday, May 10:
- Members of the Future Movement in Tripoli burnt, in protest against the
events of Beirut, the headquarters, offices and houses belonging to some
opposition parties, where checkpoints in some parts of the city were spread,
which led to a situation of great tension that made the shops and economic
institutions close, it also paralyzed traffic in the streets.
- A group of gunmen broke into the Office of the Arab Socialist Baath Party
located in «Alangrsko» building in the Central Boulevard of Fuad Shihab, and
fired heavily at the office, which was completely empty from any armed or
workers, which led to a state of panic among the citizens who rushed to
evacuate streets, then another group proceeded to enter the office and burnt
have flags and pictures of the Baath flags and photos of the Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad. The armed group then proceeded to the office of former MP
Abdul Rahman, located in the Kayyal Place around one hundred meters far and
burnt it.
And when members of Tripoli Firefighters tried to extinguish the fire, a
number of enthusiastic supporters of the Future Movement confronted them, and
they entered the office and worked to throw its contents in the street and
set fire broaderly in the office, which led to fire expansion along the
adjacent offices of the Office of the Baath party causing damage in the
clinic of Dr. Nabil Khalaf and the Office of the notary Mr. Mohammad Yaghi,
and offices of lawyers George Dib and Issam Aboub, «Alangrsko» cafe was also
damaged, and Barber Andalusia, and «Optico» for eyeglasses. The same scenario
was in the office of MP Abdel-Rahman, who brought fire to the entire
contents, and the Fire Brigade was forced to intervene to save the
neighboring offices and stores and prevent them from exposure to combustion.
- A number of gunmen stormed into the headquarters of Al-Jaafariyyah Court in
Al-Thakafa Street, where they stayed for a period of time without burning it,
they only scattered and destroyed its contents.
- Members of Future Movement raided offices belonging to Hezbollah, in addition
to the Office of "Ahl Al-Bayt" belonging to Sayyed Mohammad Hussein
Fadlallah, the Office of Resistance Support Association as well as the home
of Hezbollah official in the North, Mohamed Saleh, and another nearby house.
The gunmen entered these headquarters and threw all its contents in the
streets and burnt it upon the sound of chants supporting the government of
President Siniora and MP Saad Hariri and the demand for unloose of the siege
of Beirut.
- An armed group in the port entered the headquarters of the Free Patriotic
Movement and deliberately scattered its contents prior to giving in it to the
Lebanese army intelligence.
- Gunmen deliberately stormed into the office of a marine real estate
belonging to AlAbed Yahya in the locality of Port Said at the port, who does
not belong to any political party, and stole and destroyed its contents.
- Future Movement supporters have carried out an armed widespread in an
attempt to impose an armed surrounded against the headquarters of the Syrian
Social National Party in the locality of Jemmayzet, but quick contacts took
place which resulted in the prevention of the clash.
- Tripoli markets witnessed internal armed widespread for the supporters of
the Future Movement, who made many barriers and blocked some roads to ensure
protection of the streets.
- Some rumors about mutual attacks in Tripoli were spread, which led to the
outbreak of fierce clashes between members and supporters of future Movement
and between gunmen from the Democratic Arab Party in Jebel Mohsen, where in
the beginning, automatic, light and medium weapons were used. The scope of
the clashes expanded to hit the vegetable market, Sheikh Omran, Baal
Deraweeshe, Al-Mulula from Tebbaneh side, from Kubba side, Haret al-Bikar,
Shaarany, Al-Sayydeh, and Al-Mankoubeen.
- RPGs rocket grenades were used in addition to some mortars in Tripoli
during the night, sniping operations were recorded in the clashes of the old
known axis of the civil war, which were fully retained!
- The clashes pushed the residents in Tebbaneh and Jebel Mohsen to leave
their homes and flee to safe places in the warehouse; some who had been
unable to leave the area, fled to old shelters ravaged by waste water and
various kinds of insects and rodents.
- Different attacks were recorded on the properties of citizens such as
burning houses and shops as well as the damage of cars and public properties.
- Marwa Mohammed Nasser (19 years) was shot dead while she was standing on
the balcony of her home near the area of the clashes in Tebbaneh where
another 10 people were wounded, they are: Juheina Khalid, Ghiwa Subuh,
Mahmoud Said Dib, Bilal Ali Al-Izz, Bilal Ahmad Naser, Muhammad Ahmed, Ali
Hussein, and the two Palestinians; Mohamed Al-Khatib and Samer Al-Khatib, as
well as the Syrian Imad Al-Abdullah.
- Fighters of the opposition entered to the old Future TV building in Rawshe
area where they scattered and burnt its contents with a dynamite bomb that
exploded inside. The opposition also burnt one of the offices of Radio Orient
in Karakol Druze area.
- During the funeral of one of the members of the Future Movement, Mohammed
Shammaa'a, in Tareek Jdeedeh, who died in the clashes, it was requested from
Hasan Sabbagh to close his shop as the others did in respect for the funeral
but he refused, so some of the Future Movement supporters tried to storm into
his shop, so Hasan rushed to enter his place and shoot from inside, which led
to the death of several of them. But another group attacked him and he shot
towards them and killed two of them: Mustafa Itani and Ziad Ghalayini and a
number of others wounded. Some young people participating in the funeral
burnt his store while the man was still inside, but the army intervened and
arrested him.
- Pro-government supporters broke a juice shop at Tareek Jdeedeh because the
owner is of another sect!
- In front of Rawshe platoon, a conscript in the Internal Security Forces,
Mohammed M., claimed that while he was walking in Verdun area, some gunmen
wearing the garment of the Parliament police stopped and disarmed him and
took his wallet that contains his military card and some other private
papers, in addition to his mobile phone, and then asked him to leave without
being beaten.
- In Zareef area, the review office of the Central Fund for the Displaced was
broken into, in addition to the deposition of an iron chest without stealing
anything from inside or scattering its contents.
- The citizen Walid T. was admitted to the Lebanese Canadian Hospital in Sin
Al-Fil, who claimed that he was severely beaten by gunmen from the opposition
in Sanayee' area and they stole his wallet containing documents and 700,000
Lebanese Pounds and burnt his motorcycle and expelled him from the place.
- On the highway of Minya, gunmen belonging to the Future Movement cut the
international road and started to scrutinize the identities of passers-by.
- In Manyara area, pro-government supporters entered the office of the Free
Patriotic Movement and destroyed its contents.
- In the town of Majdal Anjar, a number of inhabitants barricade patrols
belonging to the forces of UNRWA, and took the helmets, shields and
bulletproof vests, of which part of them were returned after a while.
- In Kobbeh area, Cedars street, gunmen affiliated to the Future Movement
stopped two buses of about 60 Syrian passengers, searched them and then
released them. Also, two young Syrian citizens were beaten in Aley by unknown
persons, and they were transferred to Iman Hospital for treatment. In Jeitawi
area, a number of persons attacked three Syrian workers with sharp tools and
they were severely beaten.
- In Al Ain town in Bekaa, supporters of the opposition shattered a monument
to the Future Movement by a bulldozer and then fired in the air rejoicing!
- Clashes between opposition members and supporters of the Progressive
Socialist Party resulted in the kidnapping of Hizbollah to four members of
Aley's municipality police; Rabih Mrad, Wisam Danaf, Majid Zahlan and Bashir
Shhaib, in response to the kidnapping of the Progressive Socialist Party to
three Hizbollah members, executing them, mutilating their corpses and threw
two of them in front of Iman Hospital before being transferred to Beirut,
including the victim Mohammad Burji while the third remained missing and his
body was not found. Jumblatt had carried the responsibility to investigate
the incident and to find the body of the missing.
- After receiving reports about the killing of two young «Future Movement»
supporters in the region during the battles in Beirut -Hussein Haj Obeid and
Abdo Skaff- and the wounding of two other young men -Tawfiq Hamid and Rami
Hallak-, their relatives and Future supporters have left to Menya-Al Abda
International highway and cut it with burning tyres and rocks.
- At the entrance of Bhennin town, protesters destroyed the embodied photo of
-Bhennin inhabitant- the missing captive in Israeli prisons; Yehia Skaff.
- Gunmen in a car opened the fire near the office of Omar Karameh in Tripoli
and in front of the offices of the Baath Party and the National Syrian Social
Party, which led to casualties and causing confusion in the city.
Sunday, May 11:
- A second Mount war broke out between opposition supporters and the
Progressive Socialist Party, where heavy and medium weapons were used, which
led to the deaths of dozens of combatants and civilians and scattering of
body parts of some in Shuayfat as well as the damage of hundreds of houses.
- Due to clashes in Akkar, members of Future Movement stormed into the
headquarters of the National Syrian Social Party and fired on its members
killing 9 of them. The clashes led to the deaths of 13 people and about
twenty wounded in these clashes; from the «Future Movement»: Mohammad Mahmoud
Khalid, Hussein Abdo Kassem, Abdel-Kader Al-Sayyed and Khaled al-Khatib.
As for those of the National Syrian Social Party, among the dead: Ahmed
Naous, Zafer Hammouda, Fadi Sheikh, Michael Samaan, Mohammed Darwish, Mahmud
al-Turk, Mohammed Ghanem, Nasser Hammouda and Ahmad Khalid.
From the wounded, the following were identified: Abdul Rahman Al Dhaher,
Jawad Ayub Qamar Eddine, Juheina Halabi, Walid Ashek, Ahmed Khuwaylid, Tawfiq
Fayyad, Imad Musa, Imad Shadrawi, Ayad Warraq, Walid Battikh, Khalid Musa and
Emad Abdel-Rahman. Aslo, a group of the future movement in Seer Al-Dinniyah
burnt the office of the Free Patriotic Movement which was void of any person,
causing the destruction of its contents.
- Passing the road of Dahr alBaydar-Beirut remained risky as a result to the
moving rumors between the passers-by about barriers and checkpoints of masked
gunmen checking the identities of passers-by. And these fears have been
strengthened after the kidnapping of three young men from the Bekaa who were
passing through the road of Dahr alBaydar-Aley.
Monday, May 12:
- Fighting continued in the mountains and the north intermittently and the
announcement of a cease-fire and the army declares force to repulse the
violations.
- The release of the four members of Aley's municipality police who were
kidnapped.
- Launching a missile at the house of former MP Saleh Al-Khair in Tripoli.
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