O Cieux!

O Cieux!

This is one part of The Martyr’s Statue in Down Town Beirut, which commemorates six Lebanese nationalists who were hanged during World War I by the Ottomans, May 6th 1916; May 6 has become the Martyrs’ celebration Day in Lebanon.
The present memorial to Lebanon’s martyrs was erected in 1960 and
still stands today, solitary and silent in the center of the “Place des Martyrs”.
No matter what you may call it – “Place des Canons”, “Burj” or “Place des Martyrs”, this rectangular piece of land in the center of Beirut will always hold a privileged and cherished place on the minds and hearts of all Lebanese.
The statue, riddled with bullet holes, has become a symbol for all that was destroyed during the Lebanese Civil War.
The Martyr’s Square has become a common location for protests and demonstrations, among the more notable demonstrations were the 2005 anti-Syrian protests of the Cedar Revolution.
The stickers on the statue is of anti-Syrian journalist and intellectual Samir Kassir, assassinated in 2005.

Martyrdom is a notion put, unfortunately, at all sauces in Lebanon’s political life.

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