On this Day
Three years ago - 2/14/2005 - marks Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri’s Three-year assassination.
By midmorning, thousands poured into Beirut’s main Martyrs’ Square for the third anniversary of Hariri’s assassination, braving the rain and the cold, waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the [ex-Prime Minister].
Crowds paid respects at Hariri’s gravesite next to the downtown square as his brother, Shafik, unveiled a statue of him at the spot where he was killed, a few hundred yards away on a seaside boulevard.
A flame was lit and a taped message broadcast from Hariri’s widow, Nazek, who lives in Paris, urging against “falling into hatred” and calling on “unity to save the country.”[Source]
Year 3:
God bless his soul.
