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We must not hold them accountable 30 years later. Post-war Lebanon had no other choice. It was 1990, and the streets were devoid of police. For several years, the curtains of police stations were down. Courthouses were also of little use. There was no electricity, no schools, no hospitals. As the country tried to stand again after 15 years of bloody fratricidal war, it realized the extent of the void.There was a president, Elias Hraoui, and his Prime Minister, Omar Karameh. But they govern an empty shell, a ghost state with no financial or authoritative power: even the army splintered into various militias across the land."All we had left was our only roadmap: the Taif Agreement," signed in 1989, said Fares Boueiz, then Minister of Foreign Affairs. Read more Fawwaz Traboulsi: ‘We don’t write history to unify a people’ Dozens of...
We must not hold them accountable 30 years later. Post-war Lebanon had no other choice. It was 1990, and the streets were devoid of police. For several years, the curtains of police stations were down. Courthouses were also of little use. There was no electricity, no schools, no hospitals. As the country tried to stand again after 15 years of bloody fratricidal war, it realized the extent of the void.There was a president, Elias Hraoui, and his Prime Minister, Omar Karameh. But they govern an empty shell, a ghost state with no financial or authoritative power: even the army splintered into various militias across the land."All we had left was our only roadmap: the Taif Agreement," signed in 1989, said Fares Boueiz, then Minister of Foreign Affairs. Read more Fawwaz Traboulsi: ‘We don’t write history to unify a people’ Dozens...
