(17 Dec 2024)
LEBANON SYRIA PROTEST
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 16 December 2024
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1. Protesters marching and holding sign, reading (Arabic): "Towards democracy, sovereignty, pluralism and justice in Lebanon and Syria"
2. Protesters marching and chanting (Arabic): "Long live Syria, Assad has fallen."
3. Protesters gathering in Martyrs’ Square chanting (Arabic): "Bashar is out, Syria is free"
4. Pan left from statue at Martyrs’ Square to protesters chanting (Arabic): “(Maj. Gen.) Ali Mamlouk is a terrorist.”
5. Various of protesters chanting, UPSOUND: "Hafez Assad is a terrorist. May God curse your soul, Hafez"
6. Various of protesters
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ziad Yamout, protester:
"Today, after all the atrocities that we have witnessed, after all the crimes we have endured as Lebanese, Syrians, and even Palestinians, we are standing together as one united Arab people against this fallen regime. Today, we reaffirm the freedom of the Syrian people and emphasize the importance of a democratic Syria."
8. Various of protesters lighting candles
9. SOUNBITE (Arabic) Ria Kayrouz, protester:
"We represent the voices of many people who became martyrs because of this regime that we are protesting against. We are today celebrating the fall of the regime because today we know that this regime is a criminal and terrorist regime that has negatively impacted both the Lebanese and the Syrian people. Today, we are coming to say that those free voices that were lost did not go in vain."
10. Various of protesters gathering in Martyrs’ Square
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Daou, independent lawmaker:
"We are protesting in support and to celebrate what happened in Syria. Lebanon and Syria are tied up together, so the atrocities that happened in Syria happened in Lebanon. Finally we both have freedom, the Syrian people and the Lebanese people – from the dictatorship. And we’re hoping this will be an opening for new hope, and a lot more progress for both (peoples)."
12. Various of women placing a candle on the ground
STORYLINE:
Protesters marched in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Monday to celebrate the end of Bashar Assad’s rule in Syria after the former president fled his country earlier this month.
Participants lit candles and marched from Martyrs’ Square to Samir Kassir Square in downtown, chanting "Bashar is out, Syria is free" and "long live Syria, Assad has fallen."
"After all the crimes we have endured as Lebanese, Syrians, and even Palestinians, we are standing together as one united Arab people," said said protester Ziad Yamout.
The event highlighted the strained relationship between Lebanon and Syria, particularly under the 50-year rule of the Assad family which was marked by a decades-long Syrian military presence in Lebanon.
"Lebanon and Syria are tied up together, so the atrocities that happened in Syria happened in Lebanon. Finally we both have freedom, the Syrian people and the Lebanese people," said independent lawmaker Mark Daou who attended the march.
Assad fled the country earlier in December, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers.
The war has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of the country’s prewar population of 23 million.
International rights groups and prosecutors alleged widespread use of torture and extrajudicial killings in Syria’s government-run detention centers.
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