Riots in Lebanon’s Tripoli: The Latest in a Long History of Pain

Rana Dimassi (left) and her son Alaa (right) hold a picture of Fawwaz Fouad al-Samman in Tripoli on May 3, 2020. (Michal Kranz)

Sitting in her apartment in the Sehat al-Daftar neighborhood of Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest and poorest city, Rana Dimassi was unable to hold back tears.

“I want what is right, they killed him and I want his rights,” Dimassi, whose 26-year-old son Fawwaz Fouad al-Samman died after being shot by the Lebanese Army on April 27 during a night of riots…