(MENAFN) Everything was turned upside down when my friend and neighbor Richard was about to begin some online meetings at his office on the south-east edge of the capital.
Out of sever shock he spent the next three hours trying to protect himself on the floor as the war left its mark throughout the building. This took him back to many tragic memories as he had lived through 15 years of continuous civil conflict from 1975 until now.
He noted: "All the memories of the civil war flashed back into my mind," adding: "It was very intense, feelings of anger, of fear, of anxiety, especially about my children. I felt that they will be living what I lived during the civil war."
This traumatic experience left him in tears later that day after arriving safely to his house.
"I don't know why, and the next day I was not able to function at all. It seems the war trauma came back to me again. I didn't want this to happen to me and my children."
This sudden throwback in sectarian clashes in the capital on October 14th caused Richard and many other Lebanese people to worry.
The ongoing political tensions were sky high, the economy was collapsing, electricity and fuel were almost deemed non-existent, prices as high as can be, and now to seize control of Lebanon there were gunmen fully armed using the street as a war zone.
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