Did the Lebanon war really end?

“ArabNews” published a new report in which it talked about Lebanon’s revival of the 50th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War.

The report he translated says Lebanon 24 On April 13, the Lebanese celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, a conflict that reshaped the history of the modern nation deeply. Local economic, demographic and sectarian imbalances. Although the bus accident resulted in the killing of a number of people, it ignited a 15 -year war that brought tremendous destruction, loss of life and a collective displacement.

And he added: “The human and economic losses of the war were amazing. More than 120,000 people were killed and about 300,000 people were wounded, while 18 thousand people disappeared, and a million Lebanese were forced to immigrate. An analysis conducted by the International Monetary Fund was estimated that the cumulative economic loss resulting from the war between 1975 and 1993 equivalent to at least 24 times the real GDP of Lebanon in 1993. The conflict, the Palestinian factions, as well as the Syrian and Israeli army, were deeply involved in the fighting, and Beirut became the first Arab capital occupied by the Israeli army, and state institutions, including the Lebanese armed forces, were cracked on sectarian foundations.

He continued: “After half a century, the wounds still did not heal. Although the Lebanese have not yet faced, discussed or reconciled completely with the legacy of their civil war, they ended up dealing with the consequences of another conflict. The recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 4100 people, displaced about 1.2 million people, and caused economic damage and losses more than 14 billion dollars, According to World Bank estimates.

The report saw that “the anniversary of April 13 is an opportunity for the Lebanese and the friends of Lebanon to think about a difficult question: Why is Lebanon vulnerable to violence? Why is this country still trapped in a whirlpool of crises and lost opportunities?

He continued: “The Lebanese Civil War revealed the country’s weak position in a very torn regional context. Lebanon was one of the first victims of strategic spacing between Syria and Egypt in the wake of the 1973 war, and later, it was one of the first recipients to export the Iranian revolution in 1979.”

And he added: “Establishments began to mediate the war resolving a few months after its outbreak. National reconciliation, but to no avail. ”

He continued: “By the year 1989, Lebanon was on the verge of institutional collapse, as the legitimate competing governments claimed and the conflict appeared and no signs of the solution. At the summit of the Casablanca it held in May of that year, the Arab League established a three -year committee – the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco – is charged with mediation to end the war. The last diplomatic penetration came in the city of Taif, where the Kingdom hosted 62 A member of the 1972 Parliament of Lebanon for extensive negotiations. On October 22, 1989, the National Accord Document, known widely as the Taif Agreement, was signed, and Parliament was approved on November 5, 1989, and its provisions were included in the constitution in 1990.

He said: “Today, one may ask whether Lebanon is standing again at the post -Taif crossroads. Stability, trust and the possibility of renewing economic support.

And he added: “Over the past 50 years, the Lebanese have often repeated the phrase (remembered and what is returned) as a collective expression of sadness, remorse and hope. But for this hope to be translated into reality, the Lebanese government, and perhaps the Lebanese people, must fulfill its obligations, including those that it pledged in its ministerial statement, and this means restoring the state’s monopoly to use force, and affirming exclusive authority over war and peace decisions.”

He concluded: “Another major obligations are to implement a comprehensive plan to rebuild an economy destroyed by the last war and one of the worst financial collapses in modern history. The Lebanese people have the right to live in peace, dignity and stability. It has always been deprived of this right – by its political elite, the competing regional and international agendas, and because of Lebanon’s geopolitical location. On the fifty anniversary of the civil war, the Lebanese are not satisfied with the Lebanese people. Remembering the past, but also affirms their right to a present and a future that breaks this circle.

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Translated by “Lebanon 24”