Press release from the Lebanese Forces
April 17/2000

In response to the terror campaign of arrests, raids and apprehendings that the ruling regime in Lebanon launched against students and freedom activists, the Media department of the "Lebanese Forces Party" issued the following statement:

  1. The "Lebanese Forces Party" condemns this renewed repression campaign to quell the voices crying for freedom, independence and sovereignty. It considers these oppressive methods an indication of the weakness of the Lebanese and Syrian governments’ security apparatus and their confused and blundering reaction in the face of an unrelenting continued student resistance that is rooted in the minds and souls of the young Lebanese generation.
  2. No matter how long the illegal arrests last and how often they apprehend innocent people and how tyrannical the government’s raids get, it will not extinguish the resistance fire in the spirit of the free Lebanese citizens. The times of oppression will eventually end, the rule of the police state will cease to exist and the Syrian military occupation will be defeated.
  3. The "Lebanese Forces Party" sincerely salutes all the students who participated in the peaceful demonstrations against the oppressive ruling regime. We appreciate their sacrifices and we stand by them hand-in-hand, reassuring them that history will remember them as points of light, not only because they seek knowledge but also because of their staunch refusal to be anything else but students of the truth, freedom and the sovereignty of Lebanon.
  4. Finally, the "Lebanese Forces Party" calls on the Syrians and their cronies in the ruling regime in Lebanon to carefully look back at history and learn the lessons before it is too late. They should cease to act in this barbaric manner, which is guaranteed to be repaid to them many folds over. Freedom cannot be imprisoned or pierced by their spears and independence and sovereignty will be acquired no matter how long it takes.
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