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Conflict Incident Report

Protest by Civil Movements at Beirut Airport: For aviation safety remove landfill

Associated Timeline/Case: 
Waste Management Conflict (Starting January 25, 2014)
Date of incident: 
January 15, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians

Civil activists of "You Stink" Campaign and other Civil Movements gathered at Rafik Hariri International Airport evening, in protest against "the way of dealing with the birds threatening the safety of civil aviation crisis," NNA correspondent at Beirut Airport reported.
Civil activist Lucien Abu Rjeily called for "the removal of the main reason for this crisis, namely the Costa Brava Landfill."

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.