Syrian Workers In Lebanon: The Continuing List of Shame

The people of Lebanon like to think of themselves as so sophisticated and glamorous, and they 'prove' that by 1) making over 400,000 Palestinian refugees live in sub-human conditions and denying them even the pretense of rights 2) beating and killing foreign maids on a deadly basis and 3) killing Syrian workers in the country.

This is the news emanating from Lebanon on a weekly basis: A domestic worker has been killed. Either Syrian or a Sri Lanka maid.

This is the news that speaks of the reality in the CedarHomeland, not the phony hotels and bars. These people like amongst human rights violations and horrific murders of domestic workers - the most vulnerable in society - and then have the temerity to believe that they are so civilized and 'misplaced Europeans' all because they have a nice restaurant or club. The Paris of the Middle East is a cruel and delusional place.

Syrians workers have been the victims of successive murders since the withdrawal of Syrian troops in 2005. Many Lebanese have decided to go on revenge killings for the alleged Syrian responsibility for the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri and other notable Lebanese. But their target of revenge is not the Syrian government, instead they attack innocent Syrian workers in Lebanon. These workers build the hotels that the Lebanese are so proud of (as if a society is judged by its hotels) and they are vulnerable in the country.

These are routinely killed and the Lebanese government is unforgivable in its egregious refusal to do anything about this. The police never open up an investigation to prosecute the murders, and sometimes they partake in the cover-up and claim that the obviously brutally murdered Syrians just committed suicide. This is a reality with imported maids in the country, who also die and are killed in high rates. Many of these servants commit suicide out of desperations, but the offending employers are not even questioned about their abuse. But many are, in fact, killed and there is similarly no concern for the life lost and no one brought to justice. All of this is due to Lebanese racism which thinks that all other Arabs and all brown-skinned and darker people are inferior, and a nation that is obsessed with adoring and imitating the 'White Man' and pretending it is one of them.

Here's just a recent list of Syrian workers killed in Lebanon:

A Syrian worker was found dead in Lebanon. There were bruises on his body. The Lebanese police [covering up the crime said] that the worker severely beat himself before he killed himself by opening his skull.

"A Syrian worker committed suicide in a restaurant in Barouk in the Chouf region on Tuesday, according to security sources."

Here, a story about a Syrian workers who was found dead. Other reports said that his throat was slit.

Lebanese security forces mistreat a Syrian worker and put him in the trunk of a car.

"Many incidents go unreported. In interviews with 10 Syrian workers at construction sites throughout Beirut, all said they had been victims of robberies and occasional beatings by Lebanese; all said it had been because they are Syrian; none said they had reported the incidents to the authorities. “I don’t have any Lebanese friends. I never have,” said one Syrian construction worker. “Why should I? They don’t like us.”"

In one week, three Syrian workers were attacked in Lebanon and one killed. A few days later, one Syrian worker was found stabbed to death. Yesterday, a Syrian worker "fell" to his death in Lebanon. Neither the lousy Lebanese government nor the lousy Syrian government care to investigate or raise a stink.

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Yesterday, an explosion in Barr Ilyas in the Biqa` in Lebanon killed one Syrian worker, and injured three others:

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a human rights organization in Syria announced the death of a Syrian (Kurdish) worker who was killed in Lebanon. His name is Shams Ad-Din Ahmad Mahmud, and his name will be added to the list of tens--nobody really knows how many--of Syrian victims who were murdered by Lebanese "freedom" lovers since the beginning of their Hummus Revolution. He worked at a gas station in Beirut. This is the 2nd murder of a Syrian worker in Lebanon in less than a month. Neither the Lebanese nor the Syrian government have shown any concern over those murders. Police sources said that he was shot three times in the chest, head, and neck (seen above). He left 8 children behind. (His daughter is seen crying above). Police sources will now try to cover up by claiming that the motive was robbery (although a mere $150 were missing).

And all this is just scratching the surface of the list of shame in that land.

Next time you read a silly piece about Beirut being reborn and having nice bars, hotels, restaurants, ect... remember that a society is not judged by those things buy by its system of justice and how it treats its most vulnerable people and remember that this is dark news coming from Beirut.