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Lebanon: “Unsung heroes”

Written byMoussa Bashir

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Posted 13 May 2008 3:36 GMT

“Another, silent army has deployed, clad in bright green: the Sukleen cleaners. Many come from India, Bangladesh, or Sri lanka, and they are here, in the middle of this conflict, to clean the Beiruti's mess,” writes Rami Zurayk about the garbage collectors in Beirut.

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