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Politicians Commemorate the Cedar Revolution: 'A Journey, a Path and Continuous Fight'

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Politicians Commemorate the Cedar Revolution: 'A Journey, a Path and Continuous Fight'
On March 14, 2005, shortly after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, the Lebanese rose in a cross-sectarian and cross-political revolutionary movement to expel the Syrian occupation from Lebanon. Today, 19 years after the withdrawal of the occupation, Lebanese politicians commemorate the "Cedar Revolution" as part of its lasting impact on the nation's collective memory and the ongoing commitment to Lebanon's sovereignty and independence.

Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea considers March 14, the anniversary of the Cedar Revolution, as “not just a day but a journey and a path.”



Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri remembers it as a “people's revolution and a tale of independence which remains in our conscience and awareness.”



For his part, Kataeb party leader Samy Gemayel thinks of March 14 as “a very dear memory to my heart.” “It is the culmination of a long struggle undertaken by several generations in the liberation journey of Lebanon and freeing the Lebanese from internal dominance and foreign occupations,” he said on his X account, saluting the martyrs of the second independence, Pierre, Antoine and their comrades.



Lebanese Forces MP Ghassan Hasbani highlighted the period between February 14 and March 14, “We witnessed events that changed the course of the nation towards sovereignty,” he said on his X (formerly Twitter) account, noting that “anyone leading a campaign pushing for compromises and the election of any president instead of a vacuum must remember that this logic has led us to hell.”



Head of the National Council for Lifting Iran’s Occupation of Lebanon and former MP Fares Souaid saluted Gebran’s oath (former MP and Journalist CEO of Annahar daily Newspaper, who was assassinated on 2005) and the martyrs of the Independence, promising that “their blood is not lost, and that Lebanon is stronger than all and Lebanese people deserve to live.”



MP Marwan Hamadeh, a member of the Democratic Gathering Bloc, considers that March 14 was a genuine response to the assassination of a figure who was symbolic at the time. “The Lebanese people, who reacted on March 14, can rise against the assassination of today’s Lebanon in its institutions, ideology, spirit, mission and demography,” he said in a televised appearance.

For his part, MP Ashraf Rifi affirmed the continuous struggle to reclaim the state.



 

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