Rage over Video Featuring a Child Beating Up Another under Parental Instruction
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A video of a child beating up another minor, who is a Syrian national according to some reports, went viral online, prompting the Ministry of Social Affairs and the judiciary to act and demand an investigation in the incident.
The video that was posted on YouTube shows Abbas, a Lebanese child who hails from the Bekaa, holding a stick and beating up another minor under the instruction of his parents.
"Come on Abbas, hit him and don't be afraid,” a parent tells their son in the video. Abbas then starts beating up the allegedly Syrian child with the thick stick with no mercy.
Abbas later slaps his fellow minor with his own bare hands and kicks him with his foot, to brutally resort to the use of the stick once again at the end of the video.
The battered child, meanwhile, is heard painfully sobbing without saying any word.
The shocking scene drew wide condemnation on social media platforms, with many users cursing Abbas' parents for inciting their son to beat up another.
Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi announced “taking the adequate measures” to deal with the video and those appearing in it.
Minister of Social Affairs Rashid Derbas, meanwhile, told MTV that the “law cannot hold the young child responsible for his acts because he doesn't know what he is doing.”
But Derbas assured that Abbas' parents will be held accountable, calling also for “removing their guardianship duties of Abbas.”
Also, State Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud tasked the General Prosecutor of the Bekaa to probe the video, identify its source and uncover the details behind the attack.
In its account on Twitter, the Internal Security Forces slammed the incident as “as an attack on childhood,” assuring that the ISF is following up on the case.
Later in the evening, al-Jadeed television revealed that the father of Abbas has been identified as H.T.
But the parents of Abbas T. denied to the television network that they had incited their son to attack the other child.
"The person who encouraged him to attack the fellow minor was a teen who resides in the same neighborhood," they told al-Jadeed.
The same source had said earlier that security forces were questioning the Editor in Chief of YaSour website, where the video was posted, over the incident.
The Editor in Chief, meanwhile, assured that posting the footage was for "moral and human reasons."
S.D.B.
19 July 2014, 17:47
617
and they say they are not extremists!
is there worse than bringing up a kid on hating Syrian sunnis and hitting them this way?
these animals are the scum of the earth and what is coming to them is more than well deserved.
BABY KILLERS.
19 July 2014, 17:52
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Obviously, the little abbas does not know what he is doing. The tragedy lies in the father's actions and the social norms these so called "human beings" live by. This is a culture of discrimination and hatred and is being fed into their children at such a young age. I can imagine what horrors the older Abbas' and Jaafars and Husseins are doing to the Syrian people inside Syria. 2al resistance 2al.....
19 July 2014, 17:57
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Disgusting, repulsive, and evil. Anyone who will come here and say this is an isolated incident and could happen anywhere is as sick as these people in the video. I agree with the above, this is a culture that breeds hatred, prejudice, and evil. I wish I could say more, a lot more but this is a public forum!!!!
19 July 2014, 17:59
620
Young abbas is a future mowaten, southern, and a flamethrower. This is how they were raised and this video has a good side to it. It helps people understand why and how these monsters became they way we know them.
19 July 2014, 18:10
511
Tragic and devastatingly representative of the hate and violence they instill in their young at such an early age. Really disturbing!
19 July 2014, 18:20
172
What a bunch of Al Qaeda sympathizing hypocrites. After Hariri's death back in 2005, they were beating up poor defenseless Syrian workers left and right. It wasn't children beating up these workers; it was grown men.
That being said, this is absolutely disgusting. Arrest the sick parents and force them to compensate the kid.
19 July 2014, 18:24
311
It really is sickening to watch the poor helpless child being beaten in such a horrid manner. What a tragedy and what a culture!
19 July 2014, 22:59
54
Let us stop the sectarian nonsense. That despicable behavior reflects those who are involved and cannot be used as a way to defame a whole sect or a population or a town. I may despise what the Hizb have done to Lebanon, but we need to be rational, civil and most importantly moral.
20 July 2014, 00:40
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2hrs ago LBCI: The Internal Security Forces' cyber crimes bureau raided the al-Raml al-Ali area in Dahieh to arrest the father of the minor Abbas. T.
20 July 2014, 00:42
55
Regardless of the younger kid wrongdoing, it is very shameful-sickening to see this video. This has nothing to do with one religion or another as we read today stoning a women to death and this video.
Tfeh and god curse be on you you low standards.
20 July 2014, 02:39
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The mindset that lead's someone to instruct a child to commit this act in the video is the same mindset as someone who says the following:
"it would be a great day if someone finally goes into naharnet's 7th and 8th floors and drag the responsible mods into the streets and stomp them until they cry for mercy like girls"
Quote from Flamethrower, 7/19/2014
20 July 2014, 02:39
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The mindset that leads someone to instruct a child to commit this act in the video is the same mindset as someone who says the following:
"it would be a great day if someone finally goes into naharnet's 7th and 8th floors and drag the responsible mods into the streets and stomp them until they cry for mercy like girls"
Quote from Flamethrower, 7/19/2014
20 July 2014, 04:06
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shia kids brought up in love of their fellow muslim 'brothers'.
Baba and 3amo kill syrian kids in qalamoun, why shouldnt the kid do the same ?
We cant live with such scumbags...
20 July 2014, 04:10
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The following came from observers of the Russian revolution...
Revolutions eat their young... Hence... the Wolf children of the Russian Revolution.
...In its account on Twitter, the Internal Security Forces slammed the incident as “as an attack on childhood,” assuring that the ISF is following up on the case...
A sociologist might observe that childhood was developed by the English middle class during the reign of Queen Victoria. Prior to that time virtually all cultures considered children over the age of seven to be small but fully functional adults. I might observe that in most internet cultures childhood is already disappearing since everything on the internet is available to every internet user. We can now hear of first grade children raping a classmate.
20 July 2014, 08:23
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this video is pretty disgusting and shameful. Here i was thinking of going to lebanon for a vacation on the recommendation of my lebanese friend who is a christian and one the kindest guys i know. But now i am having second thoughts.
what gets me is that if the parents of abbas are doing that to kids what do u think they do to adults?
shit what happened to lebanese society? such racism. i remember during the war of 2006 when israel was bombing lebanon alot of lebanese people went to syria and the syrians accepted them.
hezbollah is sadly turning lebanon into a racist society
20 July 2014, 15:04
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lol are we reading the same comments? Where did you see any reference to race or violence? take it easy
20 July 2014, 15:51
11
This is sick. This has nothing to do with being Sunni, Shiite, Christian, Jew or a non-believer. This is just sick.
Those of you, taking this video as an occasion to insult other religious groups are surely the supporters of any counteraction against Shia.
Europe had its sectarian wars and they found out, that its better to live united in peace. Why don't we do the same? Why is that Shia, Sunni, Kurdish people, Turkish people, Christians and so on can mostly live in peace in Europe but not in the Middle East?
Think about that. The guy who did that Video and the father of the boy are arrested and inshallah will be punished for that. Let's prevent all people doing something like that! All together.
21 July 2014, 02:13
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I used to be proud to be Lebanese, but day after day I read the comments that are left on this site. A disease has spread among us. Hatred is evolving to which no one is immune to. I fail to believe that almost every commenter on this site
21 July 2014, 02:17
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Can be this immoral. I would say can we all just get along, but obviously this would be wishful thinking. Keep up the hate war and destruction will remind you once again what hatred breeds.
P.S I'm still proud to be Lebanese just proud to have such brothers.
