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Lebanon: Charbel: East Lebanon cannabis farmers might be compensated
Daily Star, Lebanon Sunday 05 Aug 2012 "I will use the Cabinet session tomorrow [Monday] to raise the issue of destroying cannabis. There are three ideas that I will put forward: one of them is compensation," Charbel told Baalbek residents and reporters in the town of Yammouneh, east Lebanon. Authorities recently launched a crackdown on cannabis fields in the Baalbek area, burning hundreds of dunams. Charbel, who expressed sympathy for the farmers and their demands, was able to convince protesters to end a sit-in they had begun a day earlier. Since the Lebanese Army and the Internal Security Forces began the destruction of cannabis fields in the Bekaa region last week, there have been several incidents in which security forces have been targeted. Two policemen and two soldiers were wounded Friday in separate shootings in Yammouneh. As residents continued Sunday to block the Baalbek town of Yammouneh in protest at authorities’ decision to eradicate cannabis fields, the Jaafar clan vowed to stand in the way of the crackdown. In a statement released Sunday, the Jaafar clan vowed to "confront with resolve the destruction of that plant, given that it is the only source of living in the area." It added that all of the clans and families in the region would stand in the face of what it described as an attempt to starve the people. On Sunday, protesters blocked the main road leading to the town. On Saturday, residents of Yammouneh blocked the three entrances to the village with burning tires, boulders and vehicles, preventing access to tractors tasked with uprooting cannabis in the area. Around 35,000 dunams in the northern Bekaa are believed to be used for the cultivation of cannabis, which has long flourished in the fertile valley. The total area of cannabis fields eradicated in the Bekaa and elsewhere thus far in the ongoing operation has reached 6,615 dunams, the ISF said in a statement Thursday. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Aug-05/183427-protesters-in-east-lebanon-block-road-over-cannabis-destruction-drive.ashx#axzz22iKMaI2V
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