Relatives of Pilgrims Prevent Syrians from Heading to Workplaces
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The families of the Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped in Syria last year prevented on Monday Syrian workers from heading to their workplaces in Shwaifat as part of the pressure exerted on them to release their loved ones.
The National News Agency said the relatives of the nine pilgrims stopped the Syrian laborers from entering factories and shops in Shwaifat's Tiro area.
They said they will take similar measures in the area of Burj al-Barajneh in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday.
Their new tactic started last week after scores of protesters closed down Syrian-owned shops in Hay el-Sellom also in the suburbs.
Eleven Lebanese pilgrims were kidnapped by armed rebels in Syria's Aleppo province in May 2012 on their way back home by land from Iran.
Since then, two of them have been released, while the remaining nine are held in the town of Aazaz in Aleppo.
08 April 2013, 13:27
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step right up step right up! it's open season on shiites living anywhere in the world! if you have a problem with hezhballa, iran, immam ali, the ayatolla's fatwas etc be like those pilgrims families and take it out on your local shiite, hassin will love you for it
08 April 2013, 15:41
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walla 3ayb ou 7araam. The syrian workers aren't related to the kidnappers. As Voyager wrote, they're thugs. Where's the police? Where's the army?
08 April 2013, 16:24
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What a bunch of idiots--why don't they complain to the SYRIAN ambassador instead of acting like a bunch of neanderthals. These syrian laborers don't have jack sh!t to do with the people who were kidnapped.
08 April 2013, 16:40
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How can those thugs prevent innocent people going to their work? Who the hell they think they are? If they were non chiites, there would have been arrests. This kind of incidents transforms any well meaning lebanese into a sectarian thinker.
09 April 2013, 10:08
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Why r Syrians even allowed to work without permits to begin with??... There's enough poor Lebanese that need jobs!
I know Lebanese men that raised n educated a family from driving a taxi all day... It's not fair to let Syrians take their jobs. Where's the government?
