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Introduction
by Mr George Sukkar
FREE DR SAMIR GEAGEA
TO
FREE LEBANON
The Becharrie
Association of NSW welcomes you all to this here gathering tonight in
a show of solidarity with the son of Becharrie, leader the Lebanese
Forces, Dr Samir Geagea, the courageous. This leader of the Christian
people of Lebanon, land of the Holy Cedars, the last bastion of
Christianity in a sea of hostility and terror, continues to defy the
oppressors of our fellow Christian folk in Lebanon, this despite the
barbaric and inhumane treatment he has been subjected to by the Syrian
installed puppet Lebanese regime. I will remind you all, Dr Geagea has
been held as a political prisoner in the cells of the regime’s Defence
Ministry to uphold the fabrications and false accusations hurled upon
this innocent person. As we remember the enormous sacrifices made by
Dr Samir Geagea for his fellow Christians in Lebanon and beyond, we
must not forget the countless other innocent Christian political
prisoners still languishing under daily torture in the prisons of the
Lebanese and the Syrian regimes, namely Gerges Khoury and not to
mention those who have paid their lives, murdered by vicious and
cowardly secret police thus and the behest of their masters.
This evening we shall
put together our voices united in demanding the unconditioned release
of dr Samir Geagea and all other innocent Lebanese political prisoners
being held in the prisons of the Lebanese regime or the prisons of its
Syrian master.
The symbol of freedom
and the symbol of the resistance to the occupation in today’s Lebanon
is embodied by the stance of Dr Samir Geagea, and his continued
defiance in the face of impossible adds for the cause of the Christian
existence in the last remaining Christian enclave in the Middle East
gives us all hope that one day that final bastion of Christian will
emerge victorious and rid itself of the yolk of terror.
I feel it is also
appropriate to note that at this point in history, in the aftermath of
Dr Samir Geagea’s incarceration in 1994, the tentacles of terror
succeeded in spreading its venom beyond the borders of Lebanon and the
Middle East into the Western world and beyond, and today threatens the
very fabric of civilised society world wide. |
