“Cancellation of school aid” … a measure of retired military personnel

Retired military personnel in Tripoli announced, in a statement, that “they will leave at seven in the morning next Wednesday, with an open movement until further notice in front of the building of the Ministry of Finance in Tripoli, to reject the possibility of canceling aid. schoolchildren “.

The statement read: “We, the retired military, built Lebanon, we protected it with our eyelashes and our bodies, and we watered it with our blood. Medical and educational, we demand reciprocity like other sectors, military and civil, whose members have benefited from school aid, according to the new budget law for 2019.

He added: “We can no longer pay the debts to the schools, not even pay the enrollment fees. Even the school administrations refuse to enroll our children before paying the old ones. And our wages that we have earned with our sweat and exhausted for decades they are no longer enough to buy bread. “

In their statement, the retired military recalled that they reviewed the people involved, “and we did not get a satisfactory answer, and the result is that nobody knows where the school aid rules are. Rather, we received information that they will be canceled and withheld from On a permanent basis. Therefore, based on the above, we invite all retired military personnel and their families, and we highlight the presence of their families. ” To move on the ground and scale throughout Lebanon and in all regions, to demand our rights, and stand up to the oppressors and thieves of our children’s money, and warn them against the violation of our wages and rights to social benefits and schoolchildren.

As for the details of the measure, they called for “the complete closure of the departments of the Ministry of Finance in all regions and in Tripoli in particular, while preserving the right to escalate, leading to the closure of branches of the central bank as a second target, and all government departments and public facilities as subsequent targets on a day-to-day basis.

The statement concluded by noting that the National Authority for Veterans and the Society for Social Balance and Equality announced the adoption of their statement and participated in a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Finance building in Tripoli on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at starting at seven in the morning, provided that other dates for the sit-in in front of the Ministry of Finance are determined in the rest of the Regions. “