Скачать или смотреть Retired Lebanese soldiers protest for higher pensions

(26 Sep 2022)
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Beirut - 26 September 2022
1. Various of Lebanese soldiers putting metal barriers in front of retired Lebanese soldiers who tried to storm the parliament, who try to overcome the barrier
2. Various of soldiers pushing the retired soldiers and officers
3. Retired soldiers leaving area, tear gas
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Arkan Shehadeh, retired Lebanese army officer:  
"The goal of the budget is to formalise theft, the money they smuggled and stole. This is the goal of the budget. We are demanding our rights as retired soldiers who served the state, at least for those who are sick or who were martyred. We're like living martyrs."
5. Wide of soldiers pushing back the retired soldiers
6. Soldiers and retired soldier carrying away a wounded soldier
7. Soldiers treating the wounded
8. Ambulance at scene
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of retired Lebanese army soldiers briefly broke through a police cordon near the parliament in downtown Beirut on Monday demanding an increase in their monthly retirement pay.
Scuffles broke out between the veteran officers and Lebanese security forces guarding the country's legislature just as lawmakers met to vote on a controversial austerity budget.
"The goal of the budget is to formalize theft, the money they smuggled and stole," retired army officer, Arkan Shehade, said.
After a brief commotion during which tear gas was fired, the protesters moved away from the parliament building, and gathered nearby.
Monday's protest comes as banks in crisis-hit Lebanon partially reopened following a week-long closure amid a wave of heists in which assailants stormed at least seven bank branches earlier this month, demanding to withdraw their trapped savings.
Lebanon's talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a bailout have progressed sluggishly, with authorities failing to implement critical reforms, including restructuring the banking sector and lifting banking secrecy laws.
Last week, a visiting IMF delegation criticized the government’s slowness to implement desperately-needed financial reforms.
AP video shot by Fadi Tawil, Mahammad Aounti  
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