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This is what the Syrian election looks like in Lebanon

  • May 29, 2014
  • 1 min read

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Thousands of Syrain nationals living in Lebanon arrive outside the Syrian Embassy in Yarze east of Beirut on May 28, 2014, before voting in the upcoming presidential elections in Syria. Filling the streets around the embassy in Beirut, thousands of Syrians turned out to vote in a controversial presidential election that Bashar al-Assad is expected to clinch effortlessly, as civil war rages. AFP PHOTO/ JOSEPH EIDJOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images
Syrian nationals living in Lebanon gesture as they arrive outside the Syrian Embassy in Yarze east of Beirut on May 28, 2014, before voting in the upcoming presidential elections. Filling the streets around the embassy in Beirut, thousands of Syrians turned out to vote in a controversial presidential election that Bashar al-Assad is expected to clinch effortlessly, as civil war rages. AFP PHOTO/ JOSEPH EIDJOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images
Syrians who live in Lebanon chant slogans and carry portraits of President Bashar Assad and their national flags, as they drive towards to the Syrian embassy to vite in the presidential election in Yarze, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Thousands of supporters of Bashar Assad flocked to their embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday as expat voting started ahead of Syria's June 3 presidential election - a vote highly contentious amid the civil war but one that is widely expected to give the Syrian president a third seven-year term in office. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Since 2011, the country has been plagued by the Syrian Civil War that has factionalised the population largely, but not entirely, along sectarian religious and/or ethnic grounds. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights states that the war has claimed over 150,000 lives. One third of the country’s population of 23 million has been internally or externally displaced.

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: “The Syrian State is Under a Proxy War Led by Foreign Countries”

President Barack Obama is close to authorizing a mission led by the U.S. military to train moderate Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaida-linked groups, U.S. officials say. – The Wall Street Journal.

Presidential elections will be held in Syria on 3 June 2014. It will be the first multi-candidate election in the country’s history. Voting for refugees in certain foreign countries has already begun, while the foreign Syrian opposition is expected to boycott the election.

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