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With daily protests numbering up to 25,000, the government declared a crackdown on public demonstrations on February 27, but in a true sign of their nonviolent approach to activism, protestors placed flowers in the barrels of the guns of Lebanese soldiers who had been sent to shut down the Freedom Camp at Martyrs’ Square.[7] The next day, when pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigned, protestors in Martyrs’ Square rejoiced and chanted “Karami has fallen, your turn will come Lahoud, and yours, Bashar!”[8]
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