Lebanon: Take New Approach to Protect Tripoli

Email Repeated and sustained violence between armed groups in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli have imposed a deadly and destructive toll on its residents, Human Rights Watch said today. The recent round of violence that began on May 19, 2013, in the Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhoods has killed at least 28, wounded more than 200, and seems to have brought life in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second city, to a halt. The dead include at least two Lebanese army soldiers and six members of the armed groups. (Beirut) – Repeated and sustained violence between armed groups in the northern…

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