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Syria: A Letter from a Syrian Worker in Lebanon

Written byYazan Badran
Posted 30 May 2007 19 years ago

Golaniya posted a letter from a Syrian Worker in Lebanon. “In Lebanon, our hopes are now starting to flee away. We are outcasts. We receive all kinds of cursing and swearing from people. We sometimes got hit and killed. This happens when politicians, deliberately and non deliberately, make their loaded statements. Each time some huge event occurs in Lebanon, we are hit,”  

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