Lebanon pupils skip school for 3rd day to demand change 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseBEIRUT, Lebanon – Thousands of high school students across Lebanon skipped classes Friday for a third day in a row to carry on the flame of the country’s anti-graft movement. With youth unemployment running at over 30 percent, school students have joined en masse since Wednesday demanding a better country so they don’t have to emigrate. In Beirut, a teenage student who gave her name as Qamar was among thousands of pupils chanting slogans outside the ministry of education on Friday. Another poster in rhyming Arabic said: “No studying or teaching, until the president falls.”Across Lebanon, students protested outside state institutions and banks including in the southern city of Saida, Tripoli in the north and the east’s Baalbek.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 08, 2019 11:28 UTC