Aoun from Rome Says Displaced Syrians Putting Burden on Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
President Michel Aoun announced on Friday that Lebanon is bearing the burden of the displaced Syrians on its territory which has amounted to more than half the number of its own population.
“No country in the entire world is capable of affording this along with the economic and security repercussions,” Aoun said, pointing out that the number of displaced Syrians have grown to more than %50 of the Lebanese population.
More than one 1.5 million Syrians have sought refuge in Lebanon from the devastating conflict in their homeland that has killed more than 310,000 people.
Addressing the Lebanese community during a reception at the Maronite School, the President referred to the economic situation and said: “The Lebanese crisis is relatively stable because the economic cycle was launched after the presidential election, but the global crises still reflect on the country.”
Lebanon is home to more than one million registered Syrian refugees -- equal to about a quarter of the country's 4.5 million people. It's the highest refugee population in the world per capita.
Lebanon says that another half a million Syrians live in the country as well, unregistered, and officials say their presence has generated a severe burden that Lebanon can no longer handle alone.
17 March 2017, 10:35
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President Michel Aoun announced on Friday that Lebanon is bearing the burden of the displaced Syrians on its territory which has amounted to more than half the number of its own population.
but you and your iranian criminal resistance were and still are the main reason why we have Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
17 March 2017, 18:27
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Here it is liethrower ... West Qalamoun, Quseir and its environs and Homs are firmly in the hand of regime and Hizb (taken from FSA and not Nusra). Why are their inhabitants in Lebanon?
17 March 2017, 19:14
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"btw hezbollah weeding out nusra and isis on lebanon's outskirts is the main reason you can still come to the nakharnet "
no it isn't.; hezbis and iran want a total control of the region between damascus and lebanon so arms can flow freely to hezbis in lebanon...
"“Iran and the regime don’t want any Sunnis between Damascus and Homs and the Lebanese border,” said one senior Lebanese leader. “This represents a historic shift in populations.”
17 March 2017, 19:14
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"In the valleys between Damascus and Lebanon, where whole communities had abandoned their lives to war, a change is taking place. For the first time since the conflict broke out, people are starting to return.
But the people settling in are not the same as those who fled during the past six years.
The new arrivals have a different allegiance and faith to the predominantly Sunni Muslim families who once lived there. They are, according to those who have sent them, the vanguard of a move to repopulate the area with Shia Muslims not just from elsewhere in Syria, but also from Lebanon and Iraq."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/13/irans-syria-project-pushing-population-shifts-to-increase-influence
17 March 2017, 19:55
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FT... you are the biggest propagandist here.
No one believes your stupid fairy tales... no one but weak minded sheep... such as yourself!
17 March 2017, 12:13
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Caporal has lost his freedom since a long time! He is prisonner of the millions he has pocketted.
