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Hizbullah Vows to Intensify Demands for Compensation
Hizbullah would stage a rally in front of the Saudi Embassy in Qoreitem on Tuesday.
Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah promised on Monday that the opposition would intensify its demands for compensation for victims of the summer 2006 war with Israel until the government makes "decent" payouts. "We will continue until our demands are met," Fadlallah told The Daily Star.
He said that Hizbullah would stage a rally in front of the Saudi Embassy in Qoreitem on Tuesday to demand that compensations be paid, "since Saudi Arabia is one of the major donors, and since it has taken upon itself reconstruction works in more than 96 Southern villages."
"We have prepared a detailed file about compensations and the delay in paying those compensations that we will be presenting to officials at the embassy, in a bid to have them press on the government to pay war allocations," Fadlallah said.
The opposition ascribes what it says are delays in payments to political favoritism on the part of the government.
Amal MP Ayoub Humayed said Siniora's government was "biased and inhuman" on the compensations issue.
Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah promised on Monday that the opposition would intensify its demands for compensation for victims of the summer 2006 war with Israel until the government makes "decent" payouts. "We will continue until our demands are met," Fadlallah told The Daily Star.
He said that Hizbullah would stage a rally in front of the Saudi Embassy in Qoreitem on Tuesday to demand that compensations be paid, "since Saudi Arabia is one of the major donors, and since it has taken upon itself reconstruction works in more than 96 Southern villages."
"We have prepared a detailed file about compensations and the delay in paying those compensations that we will be presenting to officials at the embassy, in a bid to have them press on the government to pay war allocations," Fadlallah said.
The opposition ascribes what it says are delays in payments to political favoritism on the part of the government.
Amal MP Ayoub Humayed said Siniora's government was "biased and inhuman" on the compensations issue.
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"We will not stop here, we will keep on staging sit-ins and participating in protests until our demands are met," he said.
Qazan called on donor countries, the "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia namely," to pressure the government to pay compensations and "abandon the discriminatory attitude adopted against Southerners."
Resigned Labor Minister Trad Hamadeh said in an interview with Voice of Lebanon radio Monday that the government saw compensations as a "tool to pressure the opposition."
Hamadeh also accused Siniora of "forging data and falsifying facts."
"All the numbers and figures given by Siniora in his many news conferences are unfounded; they are random and are not based on any serious study or survey," he said.
Residents of Taibeh, near Marjayoun in the South, staged a rally Monday to demand payments from the government. The National News Agency reported a sit-in at the entrance to the village's municipality.
Mayor Hassan Qazan called on the government to "release compensations, not only those allotted to destroyed homes but also those allotted to the agricultural and industrial sectors which have suffered much during and following the war."
Humayed accused the government of "exploiting the compensations files" as a means of "political usurpation."
He was not "optimistic" about a government response to compensation demands, he said.
"Rather than keeping the money for themselves and giving futile excuses about the delay in paying compensations, the government should have come up with means to make the compensation process move more effectively," Humayed said.
Pro-government leaders added to Siniora's defense of the handling of compensations early this week.
In an interview with Al-Anbaa magazine to be published on Tuesday, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt defended Siniora, saying that the premier "is doing his best to erase the negative repercussions of the war."