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"It seems that the Lebanese people have found unity, not against Hezbollah, but in that their country is sinking"
"As nations scrambled to ferry their citizens
out of Lebanon, one group of people
has been all but forgotten -- the Lebanese....
"Is the value of human life in Lebanon less than that of the citizens of other countries?" Siniora asked during a Wednesday speech to diplomats. "Can the international community stand by while such callous retribution by the State of Israel is inflicted on us?"
He added, "Is this what the international community calls self defense? Is this the price we pay for aspiring to build our democratic institutions?"
Meanwhile, the U.N. echoed Siniora's call for a cease-fire.
Calling for a "cessation of hostilities," U.N. Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown said, "Civilians are very unfairly bearing the greatest brunt of this conflict in Lebanon."
No one knows that better than the refugees.
"They destroyed our entire city," said Samira Saysadiya, who went to the Syrian border in a bus with 10 relatives. "They are killing civilians, even those who came to help us. I pulled seven people by my hand to the hospital. People were trapped under the rubble. I saw men without heads, without legs. It was horrible."
Saysadiya's 70-year-old mother flashed a bank note that represented all the money she had -- the equivalent of about 50 cents. The 11 family members carried only three bags among them.
What the Saysadiyas want is an end to the violence.
"Where are the Arab countries?" asked Samira Saysadiya, who said she didn't know where she and her family would spend the night. "The leaders, they are just watching us die. They are doing nothing. Nothing."
-CNN
"As nations scrambled to ferry their citizens
out of Lebanon, one group of people
has been all but forgotten -- the Lebanese....
"Is the value of human life in Lebanon less than that of the citizens of other countries?" Siniora asked during a Wednesday speech to diplomats. "Can the international community stand by while such callous retribution by the State of Israel is inflicted on us?"
He added, "Is this what the international community calls self defense? Is this the price we pay for aspiring to build our democratic institutions?"
Meanwhile, the U.N. echoed Siniora's call for a cease-fire.
Calling for a "cessation of hostilities," U.N. Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown said, "Civilians are very unfairly bearing the greatest brunt of this conflict in Lebanon."
No one knows that better than the refugees.
"They destroyed our entire city," said Samira Saysadiya, who went to the Syrian border in a bus with 10 relatives. "They are killing civilians, even those who came to help us. I pulled seven people by my hand to the hospital. People were trapped under the rubble. I saw men without heads, without legs. It was horrible."
Saysadiya's 70-year-old mother flashed a bank note that represented all the money she had -- the equivalent of about 50 cents. The 11 family members carried only three bags among them.
What the Saysadiyas want is an end to the violence.
"Where are the Arab countries?" asked Samira Saysadiya, who said she didn't know where she and her family would spend the night. "The leaders, they are just watching us die. They are doing nothing. Nothing."
-CNN