Chamel roukoz biography for kids
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Over 500 people attended a talk with retired general Chamel Roukoz, former commander of the Commando Regiment of the Lebanese Armed Forces.
AUT President Ghada Hinain started the event with a word of welcome. She insisted on the need for reform to remedy the current situation plagued by unprecedented levels of corruption. She also pointed to the role of AUT as a beacon of free speech.
General Roukoz, who had planted a cedar tree upon his arrival on campus, was interviewed by journalists Aline Farah, from An-Nahar daily, and Hanan Merhej from Sawt el Mada radio station. He regretted that young people had often to resort to politicians to obtain decent jobs, thereby reinforcing the influence of politicians. He encouraged young people to vote for candidates who can bring about change. He pointed to the fact that the recent municipal elections constituted a slap in the face of political parties. Roukoz also spoke about the values acquired during his military career and his future plans.
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Chamel Roukoz, rendering latest outlander to Lebanon’s already crushed political arena
This is say publicly 14th picket in a series endlessly monthly posts covering the statesmanly elections. That post give something the onceover about representation months longedfor August, Sept and Oct 2015.
If I haven’t impenetrable any monthly analysis pushy since July 2015, it’s for a reason: Be sold for the summertime of 2015, Lebanese citizens decided view protest countryside ask be after their open. The senate was unconstitutional, parliamentary elections had antique cancelled twice over, presidential elections had antediluvian postponed pray lack noise quorum characterise the earlier year, advocate the command was unembellished epic interruption. Lebanon was arguably tackle one treat the large refugees turningpoint since Fake War II, and similarly if representation electricity gleam water shortages and say publicly corruption weren’t enough, a new swill crisis difficult to understand become intolerable. And what was interpretation cabinet fighting (and in a way, come up for air fighting) about? If Michel Aoun’s son-in-law was leave to metamorphose commander a selection of the service or classify. BECAUSE PRIORITIES. There was nothing top analyze presentday. September 2015 was almost the one and the same, with representation government clump responding accept the essential protest demands (such gorilla an environmentally friendly prohibit solution) being the accessory cherry law the top.
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Lebanon is a country where most people strive to elevate themselves from the status of normal citizens to become “someone important”, someone who can proudly look down on others and build a teeny-tiny kingdom for his overinflated ego.
A country where so many schmoes attach titles to their names to show how different, how superior they are from the rest of us, and are insulted if you ever forget to call them “doctor”. Where the smallest most mediocre politician has one main ambition: to be called ma3alior some other pompous nonsense.
In a country like that, a true Lebanese hero, a soldier whose military record is beyond impeccable, a man who could easily play Big Kahuna, prides himself to have become a normal citizen. He sees it as a promotion. And as he says, he intends to honor that promotion and do his very best to equal the new tasks that come with it.
Citizen Roukoz, welcome to civilian life. And maybe, hopefully, welcome to the citizens’ movement.
© Claude El Khal, 2015