March 14 Youth March from Ashrafiyeh to Riad al-Solh amid Candlelight Vigil near Miqati's Home
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The youth organizations of the March 14 forces on Wednesday held a sit-in at Sassine Square in Ashrafiyeh, amid the deployment of army and Internal Security Forces troops and the remarkable presence of local and international reporters, state-run National News Agency reported.
Demonstrators carried Lebanese flags and the flags of their parties and banners condemning the assassination of Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan, head of the Intelligence Bureau of the Internal Security Forces.
"Enough Crime" and "We're Fed Up with War and Destruction, We Want Security and Stability," read some of the banners.
Protesters demanded the departure of Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government and the expulsion of the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon, chanting patriotic anthems and reciting the names of all the victims of the assassinations that happened over the past seven years.
The demonstrators then marched towards the Grand Serail in Riad al-Solh to demand the government's departure.
Meanwhile, young men from the March 14 forces organized a candlelight vigil outside Miqati's residence in the northern city of Tripoli.
24 October 2012, 18:28
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The demands should be 1) expulsion of the syrian & iranian ambassadors, 2) no more Hezb in the government, 3) no more control of the airport by Hezb, 4) new government with m14 majority because they won the elections. No more consensus. Let the opposition play their role in the parliament like other democracies, not in the government while they jeopardize it.
24 October 2012, 18:47
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Well done, what you cant achieve in confrontation, you will achieve with a few candels, patience and undying belief in a free, sovereign, democratic lebanon..
24 October 2012, 19:06
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apres l'assassinat de wissam al-hassan, je veux bien voir quel temoin osera parler et quel juge osera condanner dans l'affaire de Samaha et d'autres affaires dangeureuses.
24 October 2012, 19:21
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This gov't was started with a coup. They need to go, but Hizbcocaine and Syria will expoloit the lack of a gov't for causing more trouble. They are total pricks.
24 October 2012, 19:55
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karim_m1, are you paid for spamming every single article with the same comment? If so, how much? I might be interested, it seems like easy money.
24 October 2012, 20:40
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Great job. Keep it up. Proud to have you out campaigning for the future Lebanon, you sons and daughters of our hoped for future.
Persistence is to power what carbon is to steel. Hang in there and wrest Lebanon's future from the karim_m1 and the likes of him whose hearts are filled with hatred, ignorance and meanness.
25 October 2012, 00:11
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No Karim, poor way of covering for the fact of the flags paraded by your people. We are commenting on this demonstration not one of your choosing. Typical for you, when you have no good reply to an argument, make your own argument..... Ayran must be proud of you.
25 October 2012, 03:43
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OK Karim, I saw the photo and NO I do not support that either..... I am supporting the picture and the theme of this specific article (MY COMMENTS PERTAIN TO THIS AND ONLY THIS ARTICLE).
The March from Ashrafiyeh to Riad al-Solh amid Candlelight Vigil ( loved the theme and the Lebanese flags).
I am not referring to the one you mention "Tariq Jedideh demonstration you referred me to".... the guy in that photo does not even look Lebanese and neither the flag.
I am against IKHWAN and against WELAYAT EL FAGIH .... I am Lebanese.
25 October 2012, 10:26
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With the very few exceptions, most Lebanese leaders at one time or the other cooperated or even collaborated with the Syrian regime of the Al Assad clan. Whether this was done out of sheer ideological conviction or other is something best known to them. But many cooperated out of sheer terror and fear. But then there comes the time when that wall of fear finally falls down, then dissension starts and grows. This is now happening in Syria, by none other than the people who faced the same situation we Lebanese faced for decades. The crime starts when you reach liberation yet persist in working with your executioners. Till the Al Assad clan is finally eradicated, Lebanon will continue to face more uncertainty, but rejoice, land has been spotted at last.
25 October 2012, 04:55
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what is better for the youth is to go and study hard becuase culture and intellectual capacity is our only way out. No one accepts the fact that he is wrong. Neither 14 nor 8. Candles are very good if we meet together and challange our ego. The M 14 youth should request to condemn Nadime koutech for his stupid action for destroying the image of the youth which is by now similar to those we laugh at on TV in what we consider inferior.
25 October 2012, 07:17
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"We were resisting them the whole time while your political leaders were enjoying barazek with them and shining their boots."
hahaha! that is why now those enemies of yesterday are still shining their boots and at their orders: hezbos fpm marada etc etc ... while you criticize the collaborators of yesterday ( a lot were forced to, remember what aoun said on that btw!) you still do the same today.
so enough is enough of your hypocrisy...
25 October 2012, 10:20
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Karim, there is a substantial difference between an M14 demo and an M8 one. An M14 demo is far less well organized than an M8 one, it's always a spontaneous one with people making flags and placards as they walk to the demo. No organizer frisks them out, only the army takes care of security issues, so it's truly in the sense of a people's voice being heard. In total contrast, all M8 demos are carefully organized, choreographed and to the most minute details, their security people will frisk everyone that goes to their demos, even being told what to chant or what not to chant. We have on several occasions sent people to go in, so they told us exactly what I am telling you. A few cognizant flags are nothing compared to the ones you people show, the Syrian flag of Bachar Al Assad.
25 October 2012, 10:30
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This is the sight that rattles and scares the Al Assad mafia, be it here or in Syria. Peaceful and civilized demos are what toppled what was once considered powerful and deadly regimes. Who said the Cedar Revolution was dead? From Tehran to Tunis, to Cairo, to Tripoli and Benghazi, to Sanaa to Damascus and Aleppo, people have seen how without our firing a shot, we changed 30 years of brutal occupation to freedom. Even if Syria's agents remain, the time will come when they too will be gone. No revolution is easy, but of how sweet is the scent of its winds.
25 October 2012, 10:35
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I remember when a French paper during the civil war, the worst bombing of Ashrafieh, when Hafez Al Fassad's army was bombing us with thousands of tons of bombs, how we stood like the bravest do, this is when the French columnist said of us, "Mais de quel acier sont ils trempes ces gens". Now again, the more they will try, the more we stand brave. Nous somme faits d'un acier qui n'existe que chez nous monsieur Bachar. Notre prochain rendez vous sera quand nous feterons votre depart de la Syrie, a Damas bien sur.
25 October 2012, 14:07
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@ karim-m1 The syrians left but their influence did not.14 in my humble opinion is fighting to get rid of that influence aparent in the assasination few days ago.As well as building a new Lebanon away from the Israeli problem.
