One year after a deadly explosion at Beirut’s port killed 200 people and injured and displaced thousands, Lebanese citizens are still trying to find out what happened. People link the lack of government accountability in this disaster to the overall economic crisis. Reporter Rebecca Collard talks to a woman who lost her husband, her home and her job in the explosion, about her quest for justice and government accountability.
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