Displaced Allawis Find Little Rrelief in Impoverished North

What is affected

	Housing private
	Water, sanitation and elictricity

Type of violation

Forced eviction
Demolition/destruction

Date

05 August 2008

Region

MENA [ Middle East/North Africa ]

Country

Lebanon

Location

Beirut

Affected persons

	Total 25000
	Men 0
	Women 0
	Children 0
	Migrants
	Refugees
	IDPs

Proposed solution

Stop eviction. Authorities provide reparation for those dispossessed, injured and killed.

Details

LEBANON Displaced Allawis find little relief in impoverished north.doc
COHRE CERD rpt on roma in italy.pdf

Development

Forced eviction

Costs

Demolition/destruction

Duty holder(s) /responsible party(ies)

	State
	Israeli military, July War 2006; armed factions in Nahr al-Barid battles, 2008

Brief narrative

“When Israel did air strikes [in 2006] they dropped leaflets warning us to leave the village. These Salafis are trying to drive us out of the country,” said Mohammed, a member of the Allawi sect, an off-shoot of Shia Islam, referring to followers of an extremist doctrine of Sunni Islam.

Since May, long-standing historical grievances between the Allawis of Tripoli’s Jebel Mohsen neighbourhood and Sunnis living in adjacent Bab al-Tabbaneh have morphed into an intractable armed conflict, spurred on by political cleavages in Beirut and a rising tide of Sunni radicalism in the country.

Costs

€ 0

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