People still find it difficult to fathom that loved ones – parents, daughters, moms, dads are no longer there. They are refusing to become a figment of the imagination of those that are still living. These families are talking about justice but that word has become illusive.
In all honesty, for the government to mark this day as a national tragedy is not the best way to go about things or deal with the emotional scars the explosion left behind. Lebanon and its people went through a catastrophe of gigantic proportions according to world standards being as the biggest non-nuclear disaster ever. The least that can be done is to get to the bottom of what actually happened, how did a fire in one warehouse lead to a large inferno and a blast and who was behind the 2,750 tons of the ammonium nitrate that exploded on that August evening in the Beirut Port and sent the city into a deadly tailspin of bloodiness, deaths and destruction. In whose interest was it to unload the deadly nitrate on the Beirut Port and why store it there since 2013.