We demand accountability for the Beirut blast
Six years after the explosion, the domestic investigation is complete, but an indictment is yet to be issued.
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On August 4, 2020, at 6:07 in the evening, we lost the people we loved the most.
Children and parents, husbands and wives, firefighters who ran towards the port while everyone else ran away.
The explosion that killed at least 218 people, wounded 7,000, and left more than 150 physically disabled was no accident.
It was the foreseeable result of thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate left to rot in the heart of our capital, with the knowledge, in writing, of the highest officials of the state.
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