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| Army Ends Standoff between Hizbullah, March 14 Supporters at USJ Huvelin Campus |
| 2013-11-26 |
| [An Nahar] Tensions were high at the Universite Saint Joseph in the Huvelin neighborhood in Beirut on Monday in light of Hizbullah supporters' protest against recent student elections results, reported MTV. It said that the supporters surrounded the campus in protest, sparking tensions between them and the March 14 students. The army soon intervened however averting any clash between the rival camps, reported the National News Agency on Monday. Students have since left the scene and security forces are working on ensuring security around the campus. Earlier, Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. MP Sami Gemayel contacted Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji and USJ's President Father Salim Daccache demanding that they "assume their responsibilities regarding the provocations at the campus." The student elections were held at USJ last week. An alliance between the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... and March 14 forces won the majority of seats at three of the campus's four faculties, while independent students swept the last faculty. Gemayel later revealed during a presser that the tensions were caused in light of Hizbullah supporters' painting of graffiti in the campus hailing Habib al-Shartouni, who was convicted of the liquidation of former President Bashir Gemayel in 1982. |
| Posted by:Fred |