Beirut MPs Hold Govt. Responsible for Security Unrest in Capital
Lawmakers representing Beirut criticized on Monday the security situation in Lebanon, saying that “no reasonable individual” would accept the armed clashes that have erupted in the city over the past few months.
They said after a meeting at parliament: “The government is responsible for the unrest.”
“The unrest that has taken place at various locations, the most of recent of which was at al- Zaydaniyeh neighborhood, which some sides like to call security incidents, cannot be ignored because the citizens’ lives are being threatened and terrorized,” they added.
“The MPs have decided to form delegations to meet with the president, prime minister, and speaker to ensure the establishment of an arms-free Beirut,” they said.
Clashes erupted on Friday at Zaidaniyeh-Aisha Bakkar neighborhood between Amal and Hizbullah supporters.
The gunfight erupted over an argument on a parking space.
In August 2010, armed clashes broke out between Hizbullah and the radical pro-Syrian Sunni group Al-Ahbash in the Borj Abi Haidar neighborhood.
Three people were killed in the unrest and several others wounded.
In July 2009, one woman was killed and several other people were wounded when fighting broke out between supporters of Speaker Nabih Berri and the Mustaqbal Movement in the Aisha Bakkar neighborhood in Beirut.
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