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Conflict Incident Report

EDL contract workers set tires ablaze facing KVA

Date of incident: 
September 23, 2014
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
EDL workers

EDL part-timers have started executing their morning threats by setting tires ablaze, due to KVA's failure to set a specific date to pay contract workers their salaries.
At the sit-in scene near KVA, contract worker Ali Assi threatened to set himself on fire, after having been slashing his body since this morning.
http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/33675/EDL-contract-workers-set-ti...

Primary category: 
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Conflicts of socio-economic development
Conflicts associated with lack of, or gaps in economic development, opportunities and access to resources.