Lebanese Forces students have staged a sit-in
at Beirut's Ein el-Rummaneh residential neighborhood, marking the
10th anniversary of LF commander Samir Geagea's arrest and the 29th
anniversary of the eruption of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
Brandishing Geagea's portraits as well
as those of LF founder Bashir Gemayel, the protesters chanted
demands for Geagea's release from 10 years in solitary confinement
at the Defense Ministry Compound in Yarze to "turn the last
leaf of the civil war."
They lit candles for the occasion and
waved LF flags. Official spokesmen of the LF students branch said
dur ing Tuesday's sit-in that Geagea's release would be the genuine
intro into "building the new Lebanon," An Nahar reported.
Among attendants of the sit-in was Nadim
Bashir Gemayel, the only son of the LF founder who was assassinated
in a bomb blast in Ashrafieh in September of 1982 just two weeks
after his election for Lebanon's presidency.
Also present was Sami Gemayel, who heads
the students branch of the Katayeb Reformist Movement of his father
Amin Gemayel, Bashir's elder brother. Amin became Lebanon's 8th
post-independence president after Bashir's death.
