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Apr 26 2012

March 14 coalition slams rivals for threatening a new civil war

26 April 2012


BEIRUT: The March 14 coalition said Wednesday that Hezbollah and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun were stirring tension in the country and threatening a new civil war in order to serve the Syrian regime. The group renewed calls for the Lebanese to mobilize to defend peace in Lebanon.

“In its conference on March 14, 2012, the March 14 groups called for a joint Lebanese effort to build the peace of Lebanon ... over a month later, the response was a threat of renewing the civil war,” said a statement by the March 14 General Secretariat following its weekly meeting.

“Parliament sessions last week were a scene of these threats, which Lebanese heard on TV,” added the statement, referring to three days of televised debate on the policy of the government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

The statement said that speeches by members of March 8 and Aoun’s MPs during the session represented threats, as politicians from this camp sought to stoke sectarian sentiment.

In parallel, continued the statement, Hezbollah has escalated its position on keeping its arms.

“The response to the call for building the peace of Lebanon indicates that the group – which tied its destiny to that of a regime that is on its way out – finds renewing the civil war a way of getting out of its crisis,” said the statement, in reference to the Syrian regime.

“With this danger confronting Lebanon, March 14 groups stress that the threat of a civil war will not pass, and they call for a general Lebanese mobilization to defend the peace of Lebanon,” said the statement.

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