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Patriarch: 'Geagea
is the Cause of a Nation
in Captivity'
April 26, 2004
Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir
has declared Lebanese
Forces commander Samir
Geagea's imprisonment
as "the cause of
an entire nation in captivity."
The head of the Maronite
Church made the declaration
in the course of a Sunday
sermon delivered at a
mass he held in the chapel
of his Bkirki seat for
Geagea, who began his
11th year in solitary
confinement in the defense
ministry jail in Yarze.
An assortment of politicians,
legislators and trade
union leaders attended
the packed mass at the
invitation of the LF.
Geagea's wife, Strida,
and his parents, Farid
and Mary Geagea, were
in the front row of the
audience along with ex-President
Amin Gemayel.
"No peace can prevail
without justice,"
the Patriarch said. "The
cause of Dr. Samir Geagea
is for many of the Lebanese
the cause of a nation
in captivity more than
the cause of a citizen
in jail." Sfeir went
on to say:
"With
the lapse of 10 years
on his presence in jail,
we humbly pray to God
to inspire us a collective
course of action to achieve
a comprehensive national
reconciliation without
which there is no hope
for us to regain our tranquility
and prosperity or for
the return of those who
have emigrated."
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