The Lebanese civil war ended in 1990, and the politicians who started it agreed to stop it pertinent to dividing the power and the country riches among themselves. For almost 3 decades they stole money from the people, made shady deals behind their backs to make millions at their expense, and took the country onto the precipice of financial and currency collapse. All the politicians, active or past, became instant millionaires, and some billionaires according to Wikileaks documents.
Now with the international community refusing to lend Lebanon any money until the government figures out how to reduce the debt from 150% of the GDP, the only thing the corrupt assholes could think of doing was to further increase taxation on the people but increasing the value added tax to 15%, taxing VOIP (Whatsapp, Telegram, etc), and gasoline. All this meanwhile they continued to inflate their own salaries and failing to handle a mounting trash crisis in the nation, while narrowly escaping a huge fire disaster this week (after it was discovered that the fancy firefighting helicopters they received from the US were decommissioned because they could not find funds to maintain them!).
This was the straw the camel's back. Since Thursday night people have been in the streets rebelling and rioting. They have burned down corrupt politician's property (which they bought out of enriching themselves on the people's back) and asking for the government to resign, the politicians to return the stolen money hidden away in Swiss banks, and the formation of an independent technocratic government to save Lebanon.
Reuters estimates 1.2 million are currently on the streets protesting; that is a QUARTER of the entire population of Lebanon.
These are images from the protests below (give me a couple of mins to upload):
Lebanese people make a party out of everything
A wedding and a pool siesta in the middle of the protests, why not!
Joker even made an appearance
Now with the international community refusing to lend Lebanon any money until the government figures out how to reduce the debt from 150% of the GDP, the only thing the corrupt assholes could think of doing was to further increase taxation on the people but increasing the value added tax to 15%, taxing VOIP (Whatsapp, Telegram, etc), and gasoline. All this meanwhile they continued to inflate their own salaries and failing to handle a mounting trash crisis in the nation, while narrowly escaping a huge fire disaster this week (after it was discovered that the fancy firefighting helicopters they received from the US were decommissioned because they could not find funds to maintain them!).
This was the straw the camel's back. Since Thursday night people have been in the streets rebelling and rioting. They have burned down corrupt politician's property (which they bought out of enriching themselves on the people's back) and asking for the government to resign, the politicians to return the stolen money hidden away in Swiss banks, and the formation of an independent technocratic government to save Lebanon.
Reuters estimates 1.2 million are currently on the streets protesting; that is a QUARTER of the entire population of Lebanon.
These are images from the protests below (give me a couple of mins to upload):
Lebanese people make a party out of everything
A wedding and a pool siesta in the middle of the protests, why not!
Joker even made an appearance
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