Monday, February 15, 2010

Hariri rally 'marks March 14's end'

FOCUS: OPINION

By Lamis Andoni in Beirut
Al-Jazeera

"A rally marking the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister, on Sunday was partly staged to revitalise the waning Lebanese anti-Syrian front, but its conflicting political speeches all but officially declared the end of the March 14 coalition.

Calls for unity and continuity of the March 14 movement sounded more like a denial of the new political reality than a reassertion of a political programme...."

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