CKUT Radio: Lebanon the Shadows of War – David Barsamian

By Anonymous (not verified), 20 June, 2005
Author
Stefan Christoff

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Listen to an interview with Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian recorded in Beirut Lebanon, which focuses on the current political situation in Lebanon four months after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hariri’s death in February 2005 sparked large-scale demonstrations in downtown Beirut in the days after the bomb-blast.

In this interview Barsamian offers his perspectives on the wide-range of demonstrations that took the streets of Beirut, which represented various political agendas in Lebanon while almost unilaterally denouncing the assassination of Hariri. Many demonstrations demanded the immediate with-drawl of Syria’s long-standing military & intelligence presence in the country, a demand that was eventually won with the April 2005 Syrian troop with-drawl from Lebanon. While Hezbollah, the radical Lebanese Shiite political party & military group organized a large-scale demonstration in March 2005 calling for no U.S. or Western intervention in Lebanese politics, as U.S. politicians pounced on the widespread outrage in the weeks after Hariri’s assassination to also demand the with-drawl of Syrian troops from Lebanon.

This interview provides insight and context into the current political landscape in Lebanon, from an important alternative media activist.

-> To read / view more on the current political situation in Lebanon visit the Beirut Independent Media Center at: http://www.beirut.indymedia.org

{This interview was recorded and produced in Beirut Lebanon by Stefan Christoff for CKUT Radio in Montreal, who is currently in Lebanon to produce written, audio, and visual reports on present-day struggles for social justice in Lebanon. You can view full-details on Christoff’s reporting from the Middle East online at: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3905.shtml}

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