MP Houry defines April 13 as civil war commemoration and sit-in anniversary

 

April 13 marks the commemoration of the start of the Lebanese civil war, which ravaged the country between 1975 and 1990. Yet MP Ammar Houry of the Future bloc remarked that it coincided with the 500-day anniversary of the opposition sit-in in the Beirut Central District.

 

“This is a crime… on equal footing with the occupation of the Shebaa Farms,” he added, as both were a source of oppression and humiliation for the Lebanese people.

 

“500 days have made the occupiers prisoners of their own positions, for they lost the courage and ability to confess to their mistakes,” Houry said.

 

“The occupiers Downtown have shown a culture of disruption, harassment, and intimidation and terrorization of the people, a culture of the vandalism of homes,” he continued, adding that the sit-in had caused the bankruptcy of a number of enterprises.

 

Houry said that the 500-day anniversary could prove a chance to end the occupation and “withdraw” from central Beirut.