The state’s recklessness has opened the way for unreliable relief operations, waste of money, time and efforts, in addition to ambiguity in the path and fate of donation funds. The ruling class is benefiting from the state institutions’ deliberate reluctance by transferring the reconstruction responsibility to associations affiliated with political parties, thus strengthening clientelism in the affected neighborhoods, which inevitably leads to a violation of residents’ rights and the exclusion of any possibility of recovery in the region. Did it succeed in re-establishing its authority and excluding the affected people from the reconstruction process?
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