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Horn-Blowing Motorcades
Protest LF Ban, Demand
Geagea's release
March 25, 2001
Horn-blowing motorcades
paraded through Beirut
Friday as activists of
the outlawed Lebanese
Forces protested the government's
7-year-old ban of the
group and demanded the
release of jailed LF leader
Samir Geagea.
The ban was clamped in
1994 in the wake of a
deadly bomb blast that
killed 10 worshippers
in the church of Notre
Dame De la Délivrance
in Zouk Mekael north of
Beirut. A court has cleared
Geagea from involvement.
Flag-bedecked car convoys
rolled through busy streets
with chanting LF students
waving portraits of Geagea
and LF founder Bashir
Gemayel, who was assassinated
upon his election for
Lebanon's presidency in
1982.
The students first assembled
at camps and then set
out on the horn-honking
parade with martial music
and patriotic songs blaring
from loudspeakers. They
shouted demand for the
cancellation of the ban.
Supporters of Michel Aoun
as well as Phalangist
and National Liberal students
took part in the parades.
Police made no moves to
stop the protests.
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