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Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed Thursday that the Lebanese opposition will not surrender in its mass protests to bring down the Western-backed government.
"Those who are betting on our surrender are having an illusion," he said. "We will not go out of the streets before we achieve our objective to save Lebanon."
"We insist on our demands, for the formation of a real government of national unity... because it is the only means to prevent any foreign tutelage on Lebanon, so that we have Lebanese decision-making."
Nasrallah also said that the protest was peaceful, civil and civilized, and pledged that the death of a 20-year-old Shiite opposition supporter after street fights on Sunday would not lead the protesters to violence.
"When they killed Ahmed Mahmud, they wanted to push us to clashes... I tell them... we refuse civil war and discord," he said.
Nasrallah's speech was broadcast live on two big screens to thousands of cheering opposition protesters who have been gathering since Friday outside the government s offices in central Beirut.
The opposition led by Hezbollah vowed on Wednesday to stage a new mass protest in Beirut on Sunday in a bid to topple the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora called on Thursday on the opposition to return to the negotiating table after his efforts backed by several key Arab and European states as well as the US to dissuade the protesters from continuing the unprecedented rallies failed to produce any results.
2006-12-07
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