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• Title: Arms: Lebanon's Arms Trade Flourishes Amid Political Tension (Lebanon-Report)
• Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
• Release Date : January 12, 2011
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 60 KB

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The arms trade and the presence of illegal armed groups in Lebanon have always been a hallmark of the country's turbulent political history. Lebanon has always suffered from the presence of illegal armed groups that run their own turfs to engage illicit actions, such as drug trafficking and arms smuggling, in defiance of state authority. However, things took a turn for the worse with the advent of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrillas to Lebanon in the early 1970s after they were expelled from Jordan. Subsequently, the armed Palestinian presence led to the resurgence of rival Muslim leftist and Christian right-wing militias on both sides of the sectarian fence funded by regional powers and a flourishing arms trade as a result. The deep-rooted political differences between rival Lebanese leaders eventually led to the outbreak of the devastating 1975-90 civil war that killed more than 150,000 people and left the country's infrastructure in ruins. Given Lebanon's violent political history, which also erupted into nationwide sectarian fighting in 1958, political tension between rival factions and instability have often led to a boom in the arms trade. The arms trade has always been linked to political and sectarian tension among the feuding political parties vying for power and influence in the multi-sectarian country. The weapons market is tied to the overall situation of the country. In the eyes of arms deals, instability is synonymous with wealth. A protracted political crisis is sure to push rival factions to arm and train their supporters in preparation for the possibility of crisis erupting into street violence like what happened in May 2008, when pro-and anti-government groups fought each other after Hizbullah's Shiite supporters briefly took over the mainly Muslim West Beirut to protest the government's decision to dismantle the group's private telecommunications network. More than 80 people were killed in sectarian clashes in Beirut and other areas.

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