Conflict Incident Report

Truckers reopen Mount Lebanon road after 6-day closure

Date of incident:

October 15, 2015 to October 21, 2015

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Lebanese Civilians

ISF(internal security forces)

Truck drivers protesting access restrictions to quarries recently declared as illegal reopened a Mount Lebanon road after causing major traffic jams over the past six days.
The state-run National News Agency reported that drivers began removing their trucks, indicating that their demands have been met.
The truck drivers kicked off their strike last week on the Faitroun-Mairouba road in the Kesrouan town of Jeita near the rock and sand quarries. The drivers demanded that the sites, which the National Council of the Quarries and Crushers consider to be illegal, be reopened.
The Internal Security Forces had been preventing trucks from crossing into the sites.
The nearly week-long strike caused commuters to be stuck in their vehicles for hours, with traffic police being forced to divert vehicles to alternate routes, causing bumper-to-bumper traffic.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Oct-20/319538-trucker...

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):

Conflicts of socio-economic development

Conflicts associated with lack of, or gaps in economic development, opportunities and access to resources.

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Conflict Incident Report

Truckers reopen Mount Lebanon road after 6-day closure