Geagea: They Can't Kill the Cause and Cedar Revolution Shall Continue
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed Tuesday that the 2005 Cedar Revolution of the March 14 forces “will continue.”
“You killed Mohammed Shatah, but we will not let you kill the cause,” said Geagea in a televised speech marking the third anniversary of the assassination of Shatah, a Mustaqbal Movement figure who served as finance minister between 2008 and 2009.
He was killed along with seven other people when a powerful car bomb struck his convoy in downtown Beirut on December 27, 2013. Seventy other people were injured in the attack.
“Evil can win a round but it cannot win the war. They have not and will not defeat the cause. The Cedar Revolution kicked off and shall continue and we are its witnesses,” Geagea added.
The Cedar Revolution, or Independence Intifada, was a wave of massive demonstrations in Lebanon triggered by the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri and other March 14 figures.
Following the demonstrations, Syrian troops completely withdrew from Lebanon on April 27, 2005 after a 29-year presence that heavily influenced Lebanese politics.
27 December 2016, 17:53
04
I respect Dactor Geagea for emphasizing the Cedar revolution shall continue and sharing it with President Aoun and the resistance in the same cabinet.
27 December 2016, 18:18
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But they voiced conecerned over the resistance clause in the governement statement and they judged it minor so they stayed in a governement which legaly endorse hezbollah resistance...this also deserve respect no?
27 December 2016, 19:26
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The "Cedar Revolution" if it still exists, its existence is not due to the political leadership, but in spite of it. The people willed the end of the Syrian Occupation and the people have willed the progress made to this point. The Cedar Revolution was a people's revolution and though the political class has attempted to reduce it to the usual corruption of the existent feudal corrupt system that is Lebanese politics, the cause of an independent Lebanon has survived, not just the Syrian Occupation, but the Lebanese political class as well.
27 December 2016, 21:32
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I respect the Dactor and his LF for granting the government their voices of confidence.
I also respect n.i.r.a for his prompt relay of information.
