Lebanon's protests intensify after President Aoun enrages demonstrators by urging them to end their revolt against corruption
A mourner lights a candle at a makeshift memorial, where Alaa Abu Fakher was killed by a Lebanese soldier during Tuesday night protests south of Beirut, in Khaldeh neighbourhood, Lebanon, Wednesday on November 13, 2019.
The man was a follower of Walid Jumblatt, a veteran Druze politician and former civil war militia leader, who has urged his supporters to remain calm. A 33-year-old protester, Linda Boulos Mikari, blocking a road in Beirut's Nahr al Kalb area, said Aoun had talked to the protesters as if they were children. "Respect us a little," she said. "Respect these people sleeping in the streets for a month."
Aoun also said a purely technocratic government, as demanded by many protesters, would not be able to govern Lebanon and so it should include politicians. Commercial banks, seeking to avoid capital flight, have been imposing tight restrictions on financial transfers out of Lebanon and US dollar withdrawals. The authorities have not however announced official capital controls.
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