Conflict Incident Report

Families of Arsal Captives Hold Sit-in by Interior Ministry, Lament Negligence of their Case

Associated Timeline/Case:

Arsal Conflict (starting August 2, 2014)

Date of incident:

October 9, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Families of abducted soldiers [Arsal Clashes]

The relatives of the kidnapped servicemen held a sit-in on Friday in front of the Interior Ministry and blocked the road near the Central Bank in the Beirut area of Hamra, demanding the release of their sons after more than 14 months of captivity.
The families also prevented the security forces from reopening the Banks Street in downtown Beirut after it was blocked during the civil society protests on Thursday.
They held the “government, General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim and Speaker Nabih Berri responsible for the negligence in solving the (controversial) file.”
Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) later said that Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq had agreed to receive the families at noon on Tuesday.
The relatives later headed to the Msaitbeh area in Beirut and held a brief sit-in in front of Prime Minister Tammam Salam's residence before returning to Downtown Beirut's Riad al-Solh Square.
Later on Friday, Abbas told Kuwait's al-Rai newspaper on the kidnapping ordeal: “This experience has taught us patience and the adoption of secrecy as they are the keys to success in such operations.”
“Similar abductions have taken much longer time to be resolved,” he noted.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/191640-families-of-arsal-servicemen-b...

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):

Border conflicts (Syrian border)

Violations, disputes and/or conflicts arising between rival armed groups along the Lebanese/Syrian borders which involve parties or militant groups from the Lebanese and Syrian side in both Lebanon and Syria. These conflicts also encompass transnational groups (such as faith-based regional groups, e.g. ISIS, al-Nusra Front) that cannot be considered as strictly Syrian, Lebanese or of any other national entity.

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Families of Arsal Captives Hold Sit-in by Interior Ministry, Lament Negligence of their Case