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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

[Lebanon/Syria]: The Independant - Lebanon has cause for shame in its treatment of Syrian refugees

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Bloudan is a Christian town – Zabadani is largely Sunni – and they have been on the front lines of Syria’s war; those old smuggling trails now help to bring the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into Lebanon, swelling now to 1.3 million, of whom at least 780,000 have been registered by the UN. 

This means that one in four of the people of Lebanon are now Syrians.