Lebanese women protest against return to civil war

BEIRUT (AFP) — About 300 Lebanese women have held a sit-in protest in Beirut to warn that sectarian strife could plunge the country back into civil war.

"Enough confessional incitement, no to civil war," read banners raised by women's associations in the demonstration at Beirut Museum, once the main crossing point on the "Green Line" division during the 1975-1990 civil war.

"More than 100,000 killed, more than 100,000 handicapped, more than 17,000 people missing is the price of the past civil war," read a banner.

The organisers issued a statement calling "on political leaders to stop confessional incitement and trading of ...