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    LEBANON: KURDISH- ARMENIAN TENSIONS DUE TO SYRIA CRISIS

    ANSAmed - Italy
    October 31, 2011 Monday 6:56 PM CET

    (ANSAmed) - BEIRUT, 31 OCT - Tension is rising on the edge of Beirut,
    in the Armenian majority district of Burj Hammud, where in recent
    days many Kurdish-Syrian immigrant workers have been evicted from
    homes due to pressure from the main Armenian party, an ally of the
    Shiite pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement.

    Lebanese political and security sources, quoted today by the pan-Arab
    television station, Al Arabiya and the Lebanese English language
    newspaper, The Daily Star, said that dozens of Kurds been expelled
    by their Armenian landlords, at the request of Tashnag, the Armenian
    party that is a member of the majority coalition led by Hezbollah,
    which is close to the Syrian Assad regime.

    In a growing climate of intimidation for anyone in Beirut expressing
    disagreement with the repression in underway in neighbouring Syria,
    Kurdish-Syrian activists in recent weeks have been the most tenacious
    in challenging, the deployment of forces security and pro-Damascus
    regime loyalists outside the Syrian embassy in Beirut.

    Hagop Pakradounian, a member of the Tashnag approached by the Daily
    Star, denied any link between the political situation and the tension
    in Burj Hammud, saying that the evictions were due to the recent
    increase in incidents of crime involving foreign workers who crowd
    the many apartments of the east Beirut neighborhood.

    For his part, Mahmoud Siyala, president of a Kurdish-Lebanese charity,
    said he did not want to "talk about politics ", saying only that
    "many Kurdish families are in danger of being evicted due to a few
    common criminals."




    From: A. Papazian
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