The Central Beirut Rally.(Rafiq Hariri's murder)

APS Diplomat News Service | November 27, 2006 | Copyright

With an anti-Syria fury that recalled the aftermath of the assassination of former PM Hariri, about one million of people on Nov. 23 poured into the centre of Beirut for the funeral of Gemayel. Mourning gave way to calls for unity, defiance and confrontation. Demonstrators in the crowd shouted for the resignation of the Lebanese president, Emile Lahoud, who is a puppet of Syria's Ba'thist dictatorship. They cursed Syrian President Assad, and Hizbullah Secretary-General Nasrallah, and spat on pictures of General Michel Aoun, a Christian who has aligned his party with ...

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