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Conflict Incident Report

Sit-in of shopkeepers in Baalbek

Date of incident: 
April 28, 2015
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons

On 28 Apr 15, the owners of the shops in Baalbek carried out a sit-in protest near Sinbad Restaurant to condemn and protest against the attack and the threat to one of the owners. They demanded the security forces to act and arrest the assailants.
http://www.elnashra.com/news/show/863829/

Primary category: 
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Policy conflicts
Conflicts associated with political decisions, government or state policies regarding matters of public concern, such as debates concerning law reforms, electoral laws, and protests of the government’s political decisions, among others.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.