Daily Star staff
Monday, March 28, 2011
BEIRUT: More than 300 people rallied against Lebanon’s sectarian political system and its leaders in Beirut Sunday, hours before pro-secular movements staged their fourth rally in the coastal town of Amsheet.
Demonstrators gathered at noon next to Beirut’s UNESCO Palace and marched to the residences of Lebanon’s confessional leaders. Protesters made stops at Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri’s neighborhood of Ain al-Tineh, caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s residence in Qoreitem and the Interior Ministry in Sannayeh, before marching to the neighborhood of Clemenceau, which houses the residence of Progressive Socialist Party’s leader Walid Jumblatt.
The crowd also staged a protest near the headquarters of the national telecom company Ogero in Mina al-Hosn, chanting slogans about inflation, corruption and rising unemployment rates.
A pamphlet distributed by the organizers of the rally called for the implementation of Article 95 of the constitution which calls for the formation of a national committee headed by the president to abolish political sectarianism.
The movement also called on the passage of a law to ensure the right to civil marriage in Lebanon which they argue would strengthen private liberties in the country.
The group said they considered the sectarian political system as their “enemy.”
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