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Testimonials of the civil war in Lebanon: The worst of battles
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 1, 2020
Worst battles between the Christian forces: The army and the Lebanese “Christian” Forces militia of Samir Geagea
Support movement for General Michel Aoun, currently elected as President of the Republic
The issue of the daily Al Balad, May 9, 2005
Testimonials of the civil war in Lebanon
This is the story of a girl who was 13 years old when the movement of General Aoun started after being appointed Prime Minister in interim, after President Amin Gemayel tenure ended without the election of a President in 1988.
All the Muslim Sunni sect leaders, pressured by Syria, refused to form governments. Aoun had to form his own government with the military.
The girl used to participate in the demonstrations in support of Aoun liberation stand against the occupation of the Syrian forces, and joined her schoolmates visiting the Presidential Palace in Baabda. She also drove there accompanied by her aunt and grand dad.
The Dekwani area where she lived was under the control of the “Lebanese Forces”, which was at the time still allied with one of the divided Lebanese army.
She once wrote a poem to General Michel Aoun and drew the Statue of Liberty depicting the territory of Lebanon where the torch stands.
Later, when the Lebanese army faced the trespasses of the “Lebanese Forces” on Red Lines that separated the militia forces, and the refusal to evict the port of Beirut, people were forced to take refuge in basements.
The children were separated from adults who needed silence to listen to the radios.
The trapped citizens would go three days without food. The main ingredient was lemon because it killed the appetite and boxes of Panadol for headaches.
The girl’s grand dad cooked on a blue alcohol flame which took forever for the cooked food to be ready.
General Aoun gave up the fight as the Syrian air force bombed the presidential Palace on October 13, 1990, with the consent of the US, Israel, and Saudi Kingdom.
The citizens heard the General voice on the radio telling them the situation so that ”we save and keep whatever is left in Lebanon”.
People wept and started burning the General’s cassettes and pictures for fear that the Syrian might indict them.
After October 13, the girl resumed her studies at the all girl school in Fanar where the Syrian troops installed one of their headquarters. The girls would not go out to play, especially when rumors spread of mass graves in Beit Mery and Deir Kalaa.
The Syrian soldiers used to walk the playgrounds while the students kept to their classes and they celebrated the remembrance of the independence at Independence Day.
The students began throwing leaflets opposing the Syrian occupation from school buses windows when passing Syrian check points; the consequence was school order to shut all school buses windows during the whole trip home.
The supporters of the General had a code car honking and poster were plastered stating “The General will return” from exile in France.
Note 1: I had returned to the US to resume my PhD program. My parents told me peace has come and you decided to leave again? A month later, the worst battles were engaged between the Lebanese Forces and the army under General Aoun.
I had to rely on the Red Cross to get any news of the safety of my parents who had to keep to the lower floor for over 4 months and stacking bags of dirt on entrances and windows. I received my request from the Red cross 2 weeks later: Parents safe.
Note 2: The Syrian forces remained in Lebanon until 2005, after the assassination of ex-Rafic Hariri PM. The International Court, after 15 years of deliberation, still didn’t extend any convincing decision of “Who assassinated Hariri”. This court ended up stating that Syria was Not behind this assassination. As if we, the Lebanese, didn’t know that the US/Germany and Israel were the planners of this “sophisticated” execution.
That was even reasonable before Covid-19 pandemics: A good time to die
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 1, 2020
A good time to die (October 16, 2008)
We know by now that decisions for resuming experiments on atomic explosions, in open air or underground, are bad news.
We know that decisions to leave man out of the loop of programmed launching of guided ballistic missiles are wrong decisions.
We are learning that the ozone layer is good and protects the living organisms from lethal doses of ultraviolet radiations; that the depletion of ozone over the Antarctic is very bad news.
We recognize that the increased concentration of CO2 may be causing the “Greenhouse Effect”, melting the North Pole and increasing the Oceans water level. (Methane increased emission from the poles from the melting of permafrost layer is extremely bad news)
We have this gut feeling that the deforestation of the virgin forests in the Equator is degrading the quality of air and increasing the numbers of tsunamis or cyclones or tidal waves or hurricanes.
We blame those who still insist on residing around the targeted sea shores as if these cataclysms would disappear any time soon.
We are less sure how the high tension pylons amidst towns alter the health of children. Active citizens must have learned the lesson to no longer wait for the results of funded research by multinationals and experiments when health and safety are of concern.
We know that our intelligence is intrinsically malignant, but the most malignant are those vicious, lengthy and recurring cycles of the decision processes to settle on remedial plans of actions.
We frequently don’t know the mechanisms to resolve what we initiated and much less these processes that takes decades to recognize the problems and reach agreements to act upon and persevere in our programs.
Earth has mechanisms to stabilize harms done to it, but it requires man to leave it alone for hundreds and thousands of years.
Every time man creates a problem to earth’s quality and stability we have to wait for a valiant scientist to sound the alarm.
Then we have to wait for this scientist to affiliate with a recognized international figure to give credit and weight for his discovery.
Then we have to wait for the convinced scientists and professionals to sign up a manifest and present it to the UN so that the UN might receives a wake up call to take on its responsibilities in order to preserve human rights for clean air, clean potable water, clean environment and human rights for health and safety and security.
Then we have to wait for one superpower to admit that what is happening is bad, that the level of tolerance, invariably set by unprofessional specialists in the field, is no longer acceptable.
Then we have to wait for one superpower to unilaterally agree to distance itself from the pack of wolves and actively remediate.
Then we have to hear the complaints of economic infeasibility of regulations to remedial actions and
Then we have to set a period that lengthens to decades to start an effective program that agrees to everyone concerned.
Albert Schweitzer in his book of selected three calls to action “Peace or atomic war” describes the fundamental process that was initiated to put a halt on live atomic explosion experimentations.
You discover that physicists and not medical specialists volunteer to set levels of tolerances to radioactive emissions.
You hear Edward Teller, the “eminent” physicist and “father” of the hydrogen bomb say “We have got for our national security to keep testing for a harmless hydrogen bomb”; as if States at war intend not to inflict harms!
The UN had to wait for 9235 scientists and headed by Linus Pauling to sign a manifest in January 1958 explaining the lethal harm to the next generations of radioactive emissions.
Then the US Administration gradually stopped financing apologetics in Newspapers that the experiments constitute no tangible harms.
De Gaulle of France sank an entire atole in the Pacific to test His open nuclear bomb. The French operators (in shorts and naked chest) and the people in the adjacent islands were Not warned. Most of them died from Not natural causes.
16,000 US navy personnels on a destroyer were ordered to turn their faces into a direction and cover the faces. They were Not warned that a nuclear test is going to be experimented. The marines could see the bones of their comrades from the X-rays and many were blown off. 15,000 of them died, and Not from natural causes.
After the US, Britain and the Soviet Union were forced to agree on a moratorium to open air explosions they resumed their nuclear explosions in “controlled, secure, and safe” underground testing fields.
I never stumbled on a manuscript describing the consequences for underground nuclear testing.
Usually the consequences are of long term nature and time-line researches are too expensive to follow up.
My gut feeling is that these underground testing are directly linked to the current drastic increase in large scale seism, volcano eruptions and tidal wave catastrophes.
Earth may sustain one major destructive factor but it requires more than one main factor to destabilize earth and its environment.
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