Saturday, July 15, 2006

I have just received this message from a progressive activist in Beirut:
"Today I went and saw comrads in charge of opening public schools to receive the displaced fleeing the enemy's agression. The comrad who told me, S. D., the former president of Union of Democratic Youth who was always been in charge of relief services during previous years, the following:
The differnece is huge between 1996 and today. Now they are receiving promises from the Lebanese government but NO REAL RELIEF. Nayla Moawad, minister of social affairs is the biggest liar. People are not daring to go neither to druze area nor to sunni to hide. No one single public school was opened neither in the Shouf nor Tarik El-Jadideh. Today schools were opened in Ashrafieh, the aounists are being very supportive! Tomorrow I will get you pictures from these schools ran by the Lebanese Communist Party."