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| Hizbullah on USJ Incident: Those Who Were Politically Defeated are Creating Incitement |
| 2013-11-27 |
| [An Nahar] Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah criticized on Tuesday the politicization of the incident at Universite Saint Joseph at the Huvelin neighborhood in Beirut on Monday. He said during a presser: "Those who have been defeated on the political scene are taking out their frustrations and creating incitement through the USJ incident." "They will continue to take out their frustrations against Hizbullah and create incitement whenever they suffer regional setbacks," he said. "Illusory problems were created at USJ on Monday," he remarked. The MP explained that the tensions arose when students where being harassed and prevented from expressing themselves, so they were forced to leave the campus and stage a sit-in outside its doors. Media reports had said that Hizbullah supporters had surrounded the campus in protest against last week's student elections results. Phalange MP Sami Gemayel on Monday said that the tensions were sparked after Hizbullah supporters wrote graffiti on the campus praising Habib al-Shartouni, who assassinated former President Bashir Gemayel in 1982. "The USJ administration denied claims that the university campus was surrounded," continued Fadlallah. "Tensions are normal between students and we didn't see the need for political intervention," he noted |
| Posted by:Fred |