If this were a headline posted by an international media publication, what would it say about the current state of affairs of our nation?
Garbage. And piles of rubbish on the streets stand testament to that.
Although the government had [link] piles of garbage removed off the streets of Beirut, in hopes of quelling the commotion of activists who had taken to those same streets to make their voices heard, the truth remains constant: Lebanon is on the verge of an ecological disaster.
Several protesters took the streets, chanting anti-corruption slogans during a rally calling for a prompt solution to the waste management crisis in downtown Beirut, but only one out of the hundreds of participants caught the eye of Minister Rachid Derbass who happened to be passing through -and that person was Tarek Mallah.
Why? Because, there’s history there, as activists recounted.
Derbass has repeatedly ignored whistleblowers' accounts on sexual harassment and child molestation cases at Dar al-Aytam al-Islamiya, dismissing them –without further investigations- as lies.
Tarek was among the first whistleblowers who took his story to the mainstream media.
Here are the videos on record.