Weekly Campaign to Expel Syrian Ambassador Launched in Tripoli
A demonstration was held on Friday by a number of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in the northern city of Tripoli in support of the Syrian revolution, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Saturday.
It added that they launched a weekly campaign to expel the Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali in protest against “the massacres being committed in Syria.”
Sheikh Ahmed al-Sifyani, who spoke at the rally, demanded the expulsion of the “criminal ambassador”, thanking the residents of Tripoli for their support for the Syrian people.
The head of the Tahrir Party, Walid Darniqa, who was present at the demonstration, called for the suspension of all security agreements between Lebanon and Syria, urging security forces against persecuting Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the party’s media officer Ahmed al-Qasas denied that the party had organized Friday’s demonstration, saying that it does not support Darniqa’s statements.
Some 22,000 Syrians have fled to Lebanon to escape the Syrian regime’s crackdown against the revolt that began in March 2011 and left some 15,000 dead.
over 12 years
Religion is poison. Lebanon first.
over 12 years
You have every right to show solidarity with your muslim brothers in Syria. And christian Lebanese also are feeling the pain of their muslim cousins in Syria.
But don't you see that we Lebanese, moslems and christians alike shed too much blood already? that we all love our country Lebanon? dont you feel that our first loyalty is to our nation? That we shouldnt jeapordize our country for anything? even for people of our sect in other countries? I would never jeapordize Lebanon's civil peace for a keldani or a copt. Would you do it for sunnite syrians? If you would, my friend, how do you propose that we build a country together?
If you had to choose, would you be in a country with christian Lebanese, with druze lebanese, and chiite lebanese, with all the diversity and richness of Lebanon? or would you prefer being in a "sunnite" country, (a newly created country between sunnite regions of syria and Lebanon?)- Either is valid. Where is your loyalty?
over 12 years
I will pray for the Syrian Muslims suffering, but that is it. It is irresponsible to re ignite a civil war in Lebanon. because that will just cause more death and destruction.
over 12 years
Those people are wasting their time, soon Mr Ali Abdul Karim Ali Abdul Karim Ali Abdul Karim Ali Abdul Karim Ali.. sorry I got carried away, anyway soon he'll be unemployed with nowhere to go. I just hope for his own sake he has his compatriots's knack for manual labor. I can see him now standing under the bridge in Dawra, with a raw onion his lunch, trying to hitch a ride to a day long construction site somewhere, you know he's not as young as he used to be.. come to think of it no one ever is, expect maybe L Shahroora Sabah.
over 12 years
Hey guys
Since the birth of Lebanon, his decision was not independent in any one historical moment, this fact all we know, Syria bashar or Syria Revolutionists will be the same. Syria interferes with the internal affairs of Lebanon today and tomorrow as well, and the situation in Syria, whether we like it or not, will impact on Lebanese politics, so let us be positive and take a moral position at least towards the tragedies. This position humanitarian situation, regardless of religious feelings among Muslims. May be we are today with the rebels against Bashar morally will affect the future relationship Syria and Lebanon.
over 12 years
the road to Syrian prosperity is through Lebanon. The shortest route from Damascus to the Mediterranean is through Lebanon. Syria will always meddle and will always claim Lebanon as part of Syria.
That may be the viewpoint of maronites but that is not how the Muslims view neither the civil war nor the current events. Just like you showed solidarity with the iraqi keldanis (even though you treat them as dogs in lebanon) when they were being killed in iraq, we too have a right to show solidarity with our muslim brothers.