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Lebanese Christians fearful after killings
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BEIRUT Alarm spread through Lebanon's minority Christian
community Monday after the killing of politician Dany Chamoun and his
family, and a protest strike shut down grief-stricken East Beirut.
"Why are you leaving people at the mercy of wolves? Don't you
know that people are even afraid inside their houses?" the
pro-Christian newspaper Ad-Diyar said in an appeal to President Elias
Hrawi.
Shops, banks and most businesses were closed in the Christian
enclave where more than 700 people have been killed in the last nine
days. Most died in a Syrian-Lebanese assault to topple the enclave's ...
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