Lebanese Forces Chief Samir Geagea responded to recent remarks made by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an open letter published by the French newspaper, l’Orient Le Jour.
“Chancellor Merkel, first I would like to express my admiration and respect towards your stance on the immigration wave of Syrian citizens who have found in Germany the image of humanity and democracy, which you highly reflect, as well as the chosen land that they have always dreamed of reaching after the long nightmare they have endured during their painful journey, that is ever since they were uprooted from their homeland which has now turned into an abyss,” Geagea said.
“The sacred support your government has offered to this endangered population has set a clear humanitarian example at the European level, and has cemented once more, the German humanitarian message which puts the country in the lead of hosting communities offering asylum to thousands of migrants whose only fault was to be born under the rule of a murderous dictatorship,” he added.
“Speaking of the regime, allow me to adopt the idea of including its president in any negotiations, that is unless said negotiations would claim his departure, and in the best scenario, his trial before International Criminal Court.”
“In the name of more than 250,000 killed civilians, millions of displaced people, hundreds of thousands missing and detained; in the name of children annihilated by chemicals in Eastern Ghouta, families slaughtered in Banyas and other towns, in the name of the innumerable victims of barrel bombs and Skud missiles, in the name of a Syrian legacy reduced to rubble, in the name of razed towns and villages, in the name of the ailing and tortured Syria, in the name of the remnants of humanity in this world, in the name of morals and values, this brutal killing machine which I am repulsed to call it by its name, is nonnegotiable and not subject to rehabilitation,” he decried.
"Isn’t this massive wave of migrants, which has claimed scores drowned, and which Europe is unable to contain, the result of this evil? Wouldn’t it be fairer to eradicate the cause rather than treating its consequences?
Human rights cannot be salvaged without holding the culprit accountable because the Syrian people will not enjoy a moment of peace while their persecutor continues to evade justice, one massacre after another. It will be thus unethical to rescue the prime articulator of the Syrian calamity, and whose crimes amount to those committed by war criminals.
That being said, I call on the international community, through you, to remedy the atrocious crimes committed by this dictator and realize justice so that we keep the 21st century from being tarnished by the invasive cruelty that would encourage others to follow suit, so that we do not ascertain that the century has failed to adhere to the International Human Rights Law," he concluded.
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