Cabinet Calls for Probe into Abuse of Ethiopian Domestic Worker

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These filthy Lebanese would even beat their own mothers. Throw them in jail and let them rot in there. And anyone who gets involved to secure their release should also be thrown in jail with them. What kinds of animals are being raised in Lebanon?

Wow, if this much can happen in Public, how much abuse can they commit once she is inside their home. Makes me sad and embarrased to be Lebanese. Politicians disregard the constitution and people disregard courts.

This man should go straight to jail dragged on the floor by his hair and shoved in the back seat of a car

what an stupid thing are these people doing. i hope the the victim should get justice.

Shame on the criminal offenders and the government if they don't act.We Lebanese complain of racism once we outside our country,Lebanese people are the most racist people on earth.Shame.

this is such a terrible thing looking at it.......and no other men around did anything to protect her!!!!!!!! What a shame!!!!! It's awful!!!! Where are the politicians?? POOR MAIDS OF LEBANON!!!

horrible monster, all beasts like this one should not be forgiven. Hope one day, "maids" get a better treatment for their hard work.

Where is the Ethiopian government? Shame on the Lebanese people, who does this inhuman act.

Why were the faces of the perpetrators covered up by LBC? Why is their identity protected? If they did such a criminal act in public, it seems they had nothing to be ashamed of. They should be exposed, ridiculed and above all prosecuted.

The animal is not only the guy who is beating her. What about the viewers?. Those are the real animals, that see and injustice like this and do nothing. We deserve to be treated like animals when we are out of the country.

An Ethiopian in the streets of Beirut?! Well ...

My dad is Lebanese, my mom is Ethiopian. As someone who lives as the embodiment of human coexistence this sickens me. We are all human beings. Why treat others lower than yourself? No I will be honest that it could have been worse but this is bad enough to prompt an investigation. Inshallah he will be found and she will leave. Also, Ethiopian government must do more on this issue. Some Arabs have no values whatsoever.

what a national tragedy and shame...our politicians in all their colours need to be ashamed to allow this continuous abuse of domestic workers. Stop talking politics and giving speeches and start acting....i am so ashamed and sorry. I apologize to every domestic worker and ask for forgiveness...there are still Lebanese out there that respect other humans...and humble enough to say we are sorry.

i wish i was there to protect her and give these guys a good lesson. SHAME

Why is everyone so surprised...we Lebanese (OK not all but at least 95%) are totally barbaric. Not only towards maids but towards each other. Let's face it, we are far from being remotely civilized no matter how much we long to be. It's an unsafe dirty country with no respect for human life, animal life and nature...so don't sound so surprised...we respect nothing but uncle sams green bill!!!!

Here is what i suspect will happen - And i sure hope i am wrong.
The Cabinet's call for probe - will remain a call.
And the Competent Judiciary will take note of the incident but will not take any action - I don't think they will even try to identify the perpetrator, they will just file it under unknown assaillant (even though they have his picture on video).
If there is a public uproar, then they might bring the perpetrator to justice just for propaganda purposes - but in reality he will only get a slap on the wrist - Tops.
Again i sure hope i am wrong on this - but my hunch tells me i am not.

That is quite apprehensive. May the Lord Jesus Christ
forgive him because he know not what he does...
As to the Ethiopian lady, may the Lord protect her and help her
get through such an ordeal. What a shame. What a disgrace!!!

here come the racists who start blaming the "lebanese people" for the crime of a few citizens.
Criminals and racists are in every society and battery is a crime that is rampant in most societies including western nations.

It makes my blood boil seeing this happen to a PERSON!!! she is someones daughter, sister or wife. It really is sickening. And the worst part of it is that no one helped her.

Nobody even tried to intervene to help this poor woman. It shows how cowardly really are lebanese people. Shame on us.

As an ethiopian, shame on our government...Its so sad!!!

shame on you lebanese people you live like animal guys !

you guys are animals

you guys are animals

Animals

This is the tip of the ice-bureg. About time the atrocity of those who bring maids from abroad be investigated. I commend the beginning of the investigation,and hope the Government representatives make sure that people are treated like human beings. This is a wide spread problem in neighbouring countries as well.

who cares what you have heard you dipshit..

they should beat this guy good...

If thats true LBC should plaster his company name all over on ad boards...

Allah Kabeer and his watching.

I hate the person who was dragging the girl that I am happy what the Israelis did to Lebanon. I am happy the Arab men beat their wife because they abuse the maids.

I hate myself for wishing evil on innocents people. Is this life?

I hate Arabs as a group.

All Lebanese should clean there own mess and stop slavery. The spend most of there money on tefnees and showing off.

absolutely disgusting. why didn't anyone help her? all those people standing there watching the girl get beaten. makes me sick. these dogs need to rot in jail and lebanese government needs to act disivley by passing legislation to punish these acts., instead of empty talk of referring to relevant authorities.

Lebanese should clean their own mess and stop slavery. Stop tefnees and respect your brother in humanity. They thing you can buy people by there money at the same time they think they are religious society .

Middle east is rotten ! backwardness, lack of understanding religious and ideological diversity. Specially Lebanon, Saudi, Syria, and the list goes on......
People ain't civilize !! I wish this happened in front of my face and I could have stab your Retard Azz and show you How I'm. ........

I wish some Ethiopian find this low life and kill him or burn him to death, he will pay for this, ignorant motherfucker!

All of you above talking about government involvement, I ask which government you are all talking about, there is no government in lebanon, there are a lot of politicians who work day and night to serv their own interests.

Inhuman action against helpless maids in Lebanon are continuing. Please,countries who have citezn in that country unite and save your people. My sisters and brothers, Let GOD save your lives.

It very disgusting. Even the peoples surrounding her are not willing to support her. This is really amazing. i have seen a lot of animals in Lebanese and they must get severe punishemnet for what they deserve

This is not only disgusting but a cause to raise questions both for the Libanese and Ethiopian governments. When shall the Libanese government take a lasting solution against such uncivilized and inhumane practice against such poor girl abandoned by her government of Meles Zenawi, the swindler of his country to feed his political cronies.
When shall the minority Tigrean/Ethiopian government pose for a signle minute from their busy act of looting the wealth of that ancient and historical nation and protect their subjects.
Sad

This time isHard time for Ethiopians: people living in Ethiopia are tortured and violated by Ethiopian gov't and when they leave Ethiopia got abuse harassment by their employer.
Ethiopia is calling to world human right group.

how couled human being act so hanesley? these so called domestic workers they clean their rabish baby seat their kid and they cook for their whole fammiley they dont deserved this kind of viciouse treatme it,s just like misstreating your owen fammily i am not saying the whole lebannis peopel they are that way but what i saw on this video no one try to help this poor girl that absolutley disgusting

Do they call them self a man. Shameful act of a cowered. Most racist persons they r racist because they have inferiority complex. By the way if the quarrel was with a man half their size I know they would have wetted their pants.

These Lebanese thugs were cowardly bastards for attacking a helpless woman. What is even more shocking, the bystanders who were indifferent to the suffering of a fellow human being. These thugs were committing such crime with impunity in a broad daylight within feet of the Ethiopian consulate. If the Lebanese government does not prosecute these scumbag pigs to the fullest of the law, the government itself is culpable.

oh...whats going on.IF you know Ethiopian well, they are respect people above any one.But don't forget they are breve heart by their identity .Goad will give you the response as soon on this arrogant mane .

There are plenty of crook big belly Lebanese in many parts of Africa, they are not far away from our hand.

If the Lebanese Government beleave to be a civilized and democratic country, he should persecute and punish the acts. In the other hand if the Ethiopian Goverment beleave to stand and to represent the Ethiopians, and has the proverbial heroism, should at any cost stand the perpetrators in front of justice.

This is a trend more serious than the condition in Afganistan or Syria, yet very much ignored by the world. Our sisters migrate to these wealthy arab countries to make some income and support their folks back at home. They do not realize the tremendeous risk they put themselves into. Most of them experience horrific conditions and they return home with lasting scars and emotional wounds. some get killed and no one knows their whereabouts. Others commit suiside. I hate to say it, but from all this, we're learning that the arab population in general hates Ethiopians or is very uncivilised, barbaric and ignorant. No one is saying it, but our beautiful and mostly kind and friendly girls are being abused, harrased,insulted, at times boiling water being thrown on their faces, raped and more.. by thses arabs who have no regard for life what so ever. We need to educate everyone at home never to go to thses countries or risk death!

Lebanese is the most terrorist country against humanities. There policy against women is the worst in the planet. The most dangerous country to visit. No women are protected in this land. The country is known by violence against women or tourist. This is the fact of there daily act of violence.

Disturbing brutality to see the video!! Let's not jump into a conclusion by blaming the Lebanese poeple.The man was clearly lost his mind to act this way. It's distrubing to watch such horrific acts of mankind and hopefully the end result will be JUSTICE!

Such assaults, repression and killing are happening frequently in most of Arab countries to cite some: Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates etc. Arabs have a history of hatred and suspicion against Ethiopians because they consider Ethiopia a land. Of Christians and Jews. But the fact is in Ethiopia there are more Muslims than Christians and black Jews do not account more than 1% of the Ethiopian population. I don`t blame the Arabs but what I blame and hold responsible for the sufferings and deaths of Ethiopians in the Middle East is the so called Ethiopian government. Because it sends thousands of Ethiopian girls to the Middle East. Knowing the hostility and dangers which wait Ethiopians. For the government of Melesse Zenawe Ethiopian lives is worthless, and what important is dollar and Euro.

Shame on us all Ethiopians. What we have let happen by TPLF at home to us is being dramatically multiplied in Arab countries. Thus, to reverse the situation we have to clean our home and then deal with others respectively.

the worst of all, to be beaten in front of the Ethiopian embassy. that means, the Arabs don't have respect to the whole nation. I am just curios if the do respect other Africans?

ok someone help me please. it is now easter saturday. i just got an email from a terrified domestic worker in Beirut. She is breaking her contract because she was abused by her "host" family. Now she is trying to get home. She has sent all her money to her family . They are too poor to help her. The filthy Lebanese dog agent said he would give her passport back and buy her ticket home if she stays with him at his home and pays him $ 300 . She is terrified because he is trying to touch her and kiss her. I have called the Ethiopian Embassy in Beirut ...no answer. I have called the Lebanese and Ethiopian Consul -Generals in Australia where i am ..No Answer. What can we do to stop these dogs??? She is desperate