BEIRUT (AP) Groups of angry Lebanese on Thursday beat up Syrian expatriates and refugees heading to the Syrian Embassy in Beirut and pelted their cars and buses with stones and sticks, outraged over what they perceive as an organized vote for President Bashar Assad.
Lebanese Protesters Call for Syrian Refugees to Return Home as They Cast Election Ballots
On 5/20/21 at 10:06 AM EDT
Lebanese protesters attacked Syrian refugees and demanded they go home, believing them to be an organized voting bloc for President Bashar al-Assad.
Mobs of mostly Christian right-wing Lebanese Forces groups threw sticks and stones at cars and buses carrying Syrians on their way to vote at the Syrian Embassy in Beirut. If they want to vote, they can go home and vote there, Lebanese protester Fadi Nader said. Since they love Bashar Assad, why don t they go home? Assad is running for his fourth seven-year term in a countrywide vote expected to occur next week.
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Syrian citizens who live in Lebanon, queue outside their embassy to cast their ballots for their country s presidential election at the Syrian embassy in Yarze, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, May 20, 2021. The expat ballot started in embassies abroad ahead of Syria s May 26 presidential election.
Hussein Malla
Members of the Christian rightwing Lebanese Forces group attack a bus carrying Syrian voters heading their embassy to vote in the Syrian presidential elections in the town of Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Mobs of angry Lebanese men attacked vehicles carrying Syrians expatriates and those who fled the war heading to the Syrian embassy in Beirut on Thursday, protesting against what they said was an organized vote for President Bashar Assad.
Lebanese attack Syrians heading to vote at their embassy
FADI TAWIL, Associated Press
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1of27Members of the Christian rightwing Lebanese Forces group attack a car carrying Syrian voters before heading to the Syrian embassy to vote, in the town of Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Mobs of angry Lebanese men attacked buses and cars carrying Syrians expatriates and those who fled the war heading to the Syrian embassy in Beirut on Thursday, protesting against what they said was an organized vote for President Bashar Assad.Hassan Ammar/APShow MoreShow Less
2of27Syrian citizens who live in Lebanon, queue outside their embassy to cast their ballots for their country s presidential election at the Syrian embassy in Yarze, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, May 20, 2021. The expat ballot started in embassies abroad ahead of Syria s May 26 presidential election.Hussein Malla/APShow MoreShow Less
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