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Geagea's wife takes
up issue of release
April 26, 2004
Strida Geagea, wife of
jailed Lebanese Forces
leader Samir Geagea, blamed
political lack of continuity
for many of the country's
current woes.
"There are plenty
of MPs who oppose the
government, and end up
giving it a confidence
vote," Strida Geagea
said during an address
delivered Sunday in front
of Maronite Patriarch
Nasrallah Butros Sfeir
in Bkirki, where she called
for her husband's release
from a 10-year imprisonment.
She accused the current
leaders of undermining
national reconciliation
in order to subvert Parliament's
power to hold the government
responsible.
"It would be easier
for them this way to lay
their hands on the country's
assets," she said.
She added that the country's
crises have not been resolved
during the 10 years since
her husband was jailed
in 1994.
"While
the country is still looking
for itself, the Lebanese
are still looking for
their own future and for
ways to put food on the
table. However, central
power has been divided
at a time when some ministers
have been proud to oppose
their own Cabinet,"
Strida said.
She added that scandals
were succeeding one another
in the sectors of oil,
cellular phones, electric
power and rock and sand
quarries.
She said that Lebanese
were leaving their country
in droves because they
"refuse to live in
a country with incomplete
sovereignty."
In a direct reference
to the thousands of young
people that were lining
up every day in front
of foreign embassies as
a prelude to leaving the
country, Strida said that
Lebanon without its young
people was not Lebanon.
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