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Sfeir promises to help parents of prisoners in Syria
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir promised on Sunday that he would do his best to help parents of detainees in Syrian prisons find more about their sonsâ fate. After his Sunday sermon in Bkirki, Sfeir received a delegation of parents who said that the issue of the Lebanese should be âa national obsession.â
| Somehow it's not, though... |
Ghazi Aad, speaking on behalf of the delegation, said Syria had confessed to a UN Human Rights Committee that there were Lebanese men in its jails. He also said that former Syrian Interior Minister Ali Hammoud confirmed, before the parentsâ delegation which visited him in July 2002, the presence of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons. Aad added that Lebanese officials were indifferent in handling the case, and that they âjustified their shortcoming by pretending that parents were politicizing the issue.â
| ... by pointing out that the pols were kissing the toes of their Syrian masters. |
He went on to say the issue of detainees should be a top priority in the dialogue with Syria, adding that Lebanese-Syrian relations âwould never be healthy with hundreds of prisoners crying for their freedom in Syrian jails.â
| Nobody has to pay any attention to Sfeir, though. He's just a dhimmi... |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-11-10 |
