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‘Hunger is heresy’: Suicide linked to economic crisis in Lebanon sparks outrage against government

‘I am not a heretic, but hunger is heresy’

A Lebanese man reportedly left this note before he committed suicide in a busy Beirut district.

His death has sparked outrage against the government’s handling of the country’s worst economic crisis since the civil war.
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