Crisis surrounds probe being conducted by Judge Tarek Bitar, who wants to question former and serving ministers linked to Hezbollah and the allied Amal Party about their responsibility for the deadly port blast
In the schools of central Beirut, children cowered under their desks in the same way their parents had 30 years before: trapped in the middle of factional violence.
The new Lebanese government headed by Najib Mikati was finally approved by parliament last week.
After 13 months of foundering under caretaker prime ministers, Lebanon finally has a government.
After the Beirut port blast last year, the prospect of a failed investigation — let alone two —into responsibility for that monstrous explosion would have provoked global incredulity. More than 200 people died when hundreds of tons of unsafely stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer caught fire in a port warehouse, and exploded.
Judge leading the investigation issued new dates for the questioning of ministers
In this episode of Roamings and Reflections, Director of Newlines Institute’s Human Security Unit Faysal Itani interviews Flavius Mihaies about his travels through Lebanon.
Lebanon sanctions regime | Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Financial Times editorial on the tragedy of Lebanon, 6 August 2020
After the Blast: How Beirut’s Clean-up Operation is Exposing Lebanon’s Wider State Dysfunction, article from Prospect (UK), August 2020
