Christian Ex-warlords Reconcile In Lebanon
Fakhir Rizvi Published November 15, 2018 | 03:30 AM
Beirut, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Nov, 2018 ) :Two rival Christian leaders in Lebanon, Sleiman Frangieh and Samir Geagea, reconciled Wednesday after four decades of enmity dating back to a massacre during the country's 1975-1990 civil war.
Geagea was accused of leading a militia raid which killed Frangieh's parents, three-year-old sister and dozens of rival fighters in northern Lebanon in 1978.
The two former warlords signed a document pledging "to turn the page on the past and move on to new horizons", in a televised meeting at the Maronite Christian patriarchate in Bkerke, north of Beirut.
Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi hailed the "historic meeting" between Franjieh, who is close to the Syrian regime, and Geagea, a fierce opponent of Damascus.
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