Being Dark Skinned in Beirut
Tragic News
14/03/2012
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The Ethiopian woman abused in broad daylight by a Lebanese man last week and caught on amateur video has reportedly committed suicide, according to media reports.
Lebanese television network, LBCI, reported the woman, whose identity has not yet been confirmed, killed herself at Deir El Saleeb mental hospital in north Beirut.
The woman was allegedly a domestic worker for the Lebanese man who physically assaulted her in front of the Ethiopian embassy.
The LBCI report claimed the woman had been interned at the mental hospital days after the following video of her assault went viral online.
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Mind you. We still do not know her name.
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