{"id":1071,"date":"2019-11-06T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2019-11-06T18:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:51:34","slug":"france-24-lebanese-students-blame-their-countrys-sectarian-system-for-corruption-and-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/06\/france-24-lebanese-students-blame-their-countrys-sectarian-system-for-corruption-and-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"France 24: Lebanese students blame their country&#8217;s sectarian system for corruption and failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lebanon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1075\" width=\"379\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lebanon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lebanon-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 85vw, 379px\" \/><figcaption>From Lebanon&#8217;s Ministry of Tourism<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lebanon \u2018sectarian system has entrenched\u2019 the country, students tells France 24\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8B8AOPXhn34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Lebanese students, Lebanon&#8217;s &#8220;sectarian system has entrenched the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, students from across the country walked out of their schools and campuses for sit-ins and marches denouncing corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Journalists as well. A couple even resigned from their positions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was also a massive women-led demonstration in Beirut, in addition to sit-ins in front of governmental institutions and the two largest cell phone companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that lawyers also demonstrated today asking for a fully independent judicial system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Lebanese students, Lebanon&#8217;s &#8220;sectarian system has entrenched the country&#8221;. Today, students from across the country walked out of their schools and campuses for sit-ins and marches denouncing corruption. Journalists as well. A couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}