Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Lebanon's Sectarian Disaster

2021 How Lebanon's Collapse could lead to [another] Civil War - My Take > .

00:00 Intro
00:57 A Nation in Free Fall
09:02 A Sectarian System
16:29 The Drums of War
20:30 A United Voice 

Weak Lebanon grows weaker. Beset by fuel shortages, power outages and a collapsing economy, a wave of violence has hit the country in response to the work of judge Tarek Bitar who is investigating those responsible for the Beirut blast that rocked the capital a year ago. With the violence quickly organising itself along sectarian lines, many fear the return of another civil war. What is it about Lebanon’s sectarian political system that turned it from the Switzerland of the Middle East to a nation on the brink of collapse? How can the Lebanese people rid their nation of a corrupt political class? And is the country on the brink of another sectarian civil war?

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