Grief turns to rage as Lebanon buries assassinated politician
The coffin of Pierre Gemayel was passed overhead through the crowd into the church, handed from mourner to mourner, while in the square nearby hundreds of thousands of supporters unleashed their anger, burning pictures of Syria’s president and his allies in Lebanon.
The grief over the assassination of Gemayel, a prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician, quickly turned to rage over what seems to many like an endless series of political killings in this small Mediterranean country.
