The Knowledge that Killed Lokman Slim | Asharq AL-awsat
A In its extremely brief segment on the latest crime right before the “weather forecast”, al-Manar described Lokman Slim as a “citizen” whose corpse had been found. Hezbollah’s television station did not use this term to emphasize citizens’ rights and duties. Of course, it did not refer to the notion of a “citizen” whose torture had been forbidden by the ancient civilizations of Rome and Greece. This term was adopted to conceal the many epithets that this man, whom five bullets turned into a “corpse”, deserves. Lokman Slim was an intellectual, writer, a publisher, a l...