{"id":62273,"date":"2021-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=62273"},"modified":"2024-02-12T05:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:36:36","slug":"megaphone-commemorates-marginalized-victims-of-august-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/62273\/megaphone-commemorates-marginalized-victims-of-august-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Megaphone Commemorates Marginalized Victims Of August 4"},"content":{"rendered":"In a recent post shared on their Instagram account, independent media platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/megaphonenews\/\"target=_new\">Megaphone<\/a> shared a list of marginalized victims of the August 4 explosion.<br \/>  <br \/>  <iframe title=\"Embedded Instagram Post\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"532\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSARlDurEs8\/embed\/\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 12px 0px 12px !important; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe><br \/>  The list includes 76 victims of foreign nationalities, only 28 of which have been recorded on the government&#8217;s official list of victims. The current official lists includes only 191 names, but reports revealed that there are over 217 victims of the August 4 blast. Not only were the non-Lebanese victims not mentioned, but the Anti-Racism Movement also reported that foreigners affected by the blast were deprived of aid and medical assistance, and some experienced forced eviction.<br \/>  <br \/>  This blatant racism is not surprising, as our government (and even its people) has a history of discriminatory behaviour. Justice for blast victims also includes non-Lebanese victims. Just last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/62142\"target=_new\">a racist law was proposed<\/a> to exclude the non-Lebanese families of the victims of the August 4 explosion from the state&#8217;s compensation plan.<br \/>  <br \/>  Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/62271\"target=_new\">The Protests Happening For August 4<\/a> to take part in our fight for justice.<br \/> <br \/> 1","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post shared on their Instagram account, independent media platform <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":622207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1105],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-62273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-august-4"],"authorship":[72],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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