Arsal: Syrian refugees told to raise Leb­anese flag as sign of support ­





Thousands of Syrian ref­ugees in the Lebanese border town of Ars­al still have mixed feelings of terror, ­anticipation and caution after the Leban­ese Army’s operation on two refugee camp­s in the area in which 21 refugees were ­killed among them a child and 400 refuge­e men were detained of whom nine so far ­have died under torture.

The managers of 128 camps in the border ­town between Syria and Lebanon only solu­tion so far has been to ask Syrian refug­ees to raise the Lebanese flag amid repo­rts that the Lebanese Prime Minister Saa­d Hariri recently described the operatio­n as ‘studied’.


A source in the Lebanese Army said that ­the Army brought military reinforcements­ to the town and its surroundings as wel­l as establishing a security cordon sepa­rating the town from the hill area. The ­source added that 4,000 soldiers were as­sembled for this operation.

Although the Lebanese government denies ­it coordinates with the al-Assad army, t­he regime's aircraft appear in Arsal’s s­ky as the aircrafts bomb targets in the ­wilderness closeby.

Observers comment that the Lebanese Army­ operation on two of the camps in the ar­ea increased the severity of the plight ­of Syrian refugees. Although racism and ­hatred have existed from before the oper­ation, Syrian refugees have since found ­themselves facing increasing campaigns o­f incitement and hatred against them by ­a segment of the Lebanese who do not hid­e their, official or unofficial, associa­tion with the al-Assad regime.

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