The "Bosta" word in Lebanon means "The Bus”, it has a mark in the Lebanese culture and history that now in the Arab world we began to understand thanks to the Lebanese movie "The Bus"
The "Bus" is a sign for the Lebanese civil war, because it started after the Bus incident where the phalanges troop made an ambush for bus carrying a Palestinian folklore dancing ensemble that was coming back from a wedding, killing them all and by this incident officially the civil war started between the PLO and the rest of the Palestinian militias from a side with their allies and the phalanges and their allies from another side and the rest is a bitter history
A bitter history some want to revive again
From sometime now the Lebanese scene is calm, I know it is like the quietness before the storm but it is calm, the Saudis are trying to avoid the storm as much as they can despite the attempts of some to revive it by simply creating a sectarian division
So it is not strange that from couple of months when the opposition started its strike some Shiite lad was killed and the accused who were never found were said to be from the Future movement than in January again in the clashes between the Hezbollah supporters and future supporters another Shiite Lad was killed, yet thank God the Shiite Leadership understood the purpose of this dirty game, it already knew how much it would cost the country
But as I said some don't like this way of act and thus they moved to the other front
From the Druze sect , Ziad Qabalan in his 20s who was a member in the Progressive party of Jonbalt and Ziad Ghandour who was 12 years old and a neighbor of Qabalan whose father is also a member in the progressive party were kidnapped earlier this week , it could be another kidnap crime but the facts that the victims belong to the progressive party , Qabalan was a suspect in the murder of one of Hezbollah supporters and the most important fact that this Lebanon , Lebanon the famous of Kidnaps in the time of war .
Of course all the leaders in Lebanon condemned the incident those who are on the suspect list from the opposition and all leaders called for calm down, the fear of the revenge that may cause between the Druze Sect and the Shiite Sect to a civil was and is still there and this is in fact a good indicator that the Lebanese understood the game.
Well it didn't end well the boys didn't return alive, as they found Qabalan and Ghandour dead bodies were found on Thursday, 40km south of Beirut, police said. The official statement is that they found the bodies in a field north of the port city of Sidon after a local television station received an anonymous phone tip!!
It is terrible thing when a 12 years old or even 24 years old young man got killed because of politics , of course the worst part is concerning the 12 years old Ghandour , whom I think wasn’t targeted in the first place.
You see as I said Qabalan was a suspect in a murder, plus according to the investigation he was kidnapped in his way to work as usual, it was his daily routine, in his way in his car he took young Ghandour, I don’t know why but it was the fate.
I think who ever did this is a heartless criminal with no feelings at all to kill a 12 years old boy who did nothing ,but I believe those two especially Ghandour are the among the first victims of the new Lebanese civil war which I am afraid see in the horizon
Sources:
· From Al-Jazeera News
· From the official Progressive Socialist party : Tomorrow is a day of Mourning
· From the future Newspaper "official Future movement Newspaper" : Return back our boys in Arabic
· From Al-Akhbar Newspaper “Anti-governmental” : Gadra Tragedy
· From Al-Manar TV "official Hezbollah TV" :
- Kidnapping of 2 Lebanese young men condemned
- Looking for 2 missing Ghandour, Qabalan continues
Just hoping for things to stay the way they are for the moment here!! sad/scary situation and it could blow up any minute in this beautiful country!! waiting, praying and hoping for the best! is there a chance for peace ever?
ReplyDeleteI don't know Summer if there is a real chance for Peace , People want Peace but the leaders don't want it at all , I feel so scared because this time it blow up the beautiful country along with the rest of the middle east
ReplyDeleteHopefully this trauma will end
ReplyDeleteya rab
BTW did u see Bosta the movie?
Amin Ya Rab
ReplyDeleteabout the movie I want to see it so much ,I read very positive things about it also I love the folk lebanese music and dance