23.3.05

Kaslik bombing kills three, injures eleven

Update 2: Perhaps three were killed in the bombing last night. There was not a Pakistani as far as the latest BBC report has it. I am bumping this up along with our new contributor Maldoror's post. And here's the London Independent's account of events. There doesn't seem to be any consensus as to how many died and what their nationalities were.

Update: This tragedy has taken the lives of one Indian and one Pakistani while injuring two Sri Lankans and one Lebanese. Yet another investigation needs to be launched, yet another truth must be found. Because all human life is precious. In the meantime, denouncing any form of violence on any person of any relgion and/or nationality inside Lebanon is in the best interest of Lebanon.


Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Al Jazeera interviewed some people saying two Indian workers were killed from what appears to have been a 70 KG bomb. The amount of deaths and injuries are not confirmed yet. The numbers I've heard range from 2-4 killed and 8-11 injured. It happened in a predominantly Christian neighborhood Kaslik in the port town of Jounieh at 130am. I know the place well. This is the second Christian neighborhood that has been bombed in the past week. It doesn't bode well for Lebanon just as Kofi Annan says he's secured an agreement from Assad to pull his troops and intelligence services from Lebanon after a timetable is given by early April.

I'm much more upset than I appear. I'm trying to keep a lid on it for now. I hope the truth comes out. Because this is no way to live. We cannot, I repeat, we cannot let the old divisions rise again. As soon as it becomes a tit for tat circumstance, we have all lost. I call for calm. I call for peace. For the sake of Lebanon...

6 Comments:

At Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:35:00 AM, Blogger liminal said...

Please...

 
At Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:48:00 AM, Blogger callipyge said...

:-(
Not only is the perpetrator trying to divide the Lebanese... it is also destroying the "stability" image Lebanon has managed to regain for itself. Soon enough, tourists will feel as safe visiting Beirut as they do Tel Aviv.
I am utterly shocked and disgusted.
And yeah, I hope too that the racist Lebanese authorities will treat these South Asian lives as they would Lebanese ones.

 
At Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:30:00 AM, Blogger Eve said...

There is someone who really hates Lebanon.. someone with a strong desire of destroying the beautiful thing this country has turned out to be.. someone who's making such an effort to make it seem as if we're not mature enough to live in peace.
I will NOT succumb to his outrageous attempts.
And I know nobdy will.

 
At Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:20:00 AM, Blogger Rampurple said...

I am feeling hurt....

 
At Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:26:00 PM, Blogger liminal said...

hummbumm,

divisions are not mutually exclusive.

the divisions that are being felt now are related to previous divisions. there cannot be a complete disconnect between the two.

i think i know what you're saying though

 
At Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:39:00 PM, Blogger liminal said...

there certainly is a transformation of the quality and quantity of the "division" though. things are obviously happening differently, that is to say.

 

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