BEIRUT: Lebanon Wednesday mourned the death of Ghazi Aad, founder of the Support of Lebanese in Detention and Exile group. President Michel Aoun said that Aad "will remain present for defending the rights of every human being and his struggle for those who are missing. "Ghazi will remain a role model and a motivator for the message to go on," Aoun said.
Thousands of people went missing during the 1975-1990 Civil War, many of whom are believed to be imprisoned in Syria, while others are likely buried in mass graves throughout Lebanon. Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri contacted Aad's family to offer his condolences.
Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil tweeted that the case "will not be dismissed with your departure... Uncovering the fate [of the missing Lebanese] will remain in our minds, memories and [be one of our] demands." "As long as we're alive, we will not deter from following up on the case of detainees in Syrian prisons," Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said. Caretaker Economy Minister Alain Hakim tweeted: "Ghazi Aad, your departure will not silence your voice and that of the mothers in the case of the abductees."
By Asia News agency
BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has called for an "inclusive government” to represent all of the country’s groups when it takes office, hopefully before Lebanon’s Independence Day on 22 November.
In the appeal he made yesterday in his homily at Sunday Mass, the cardinal also asked the country's parliament and political leaders to make a further effort so that President Michel Aoun can reach a compromise in setting up the new government.
“The Lebanese want the anticipated new government to be an inclusive, consensual and effective government,” al-Rahi told the faithful in his Sunday Mass sermon. For the prelate, the new cabinet should be a “government that unites rather than divides, a government that shares responsibilities with the spirit of the National Pact and the constitution, not with the mentality of the distribution of shares or clinging to a certain ministerial portfolio”.
The Lebanese also “hope it will be formed before Independence Day so that their joy would be complete,” al-Rahi added. Aoun’s election as president and Saad Hariri’s selection as the new prime minister have renewed hope in the country’s future. However, Lebanon’s new leaders face many challenges, from a stagnant economy to a million Syrian refugees who arrived in recent.
These are serious and difficult problems to tackle for an often waning political class whose members are focused on personal interests and have been unable so far to deal with the country’s crises adequately.
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Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans
ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية
ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها
Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century
Historical Members:
Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen
Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef
Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen
Cheikha Arzi El Khazen
Marie El Khazen