Hashem Selman has returned to his southern hometown of Aadloun to rest in its soil as a victim of dictatorship and authoritarianism which are lately sought to be injected into Lebanon’s “weak body”.
Selman was killed only because he chose to stand up and be counted, voicing rejection of Hezbollah’s military role in suppressing the Syrian revolution.
Unfortunately, the slain young man was even oppressed after his death as both Hezbollah and AMAL refused that he would be laid to rest in Aadloun’s cemetery or to hold funeral prayers at the town’s mosque or even allowing his family to receive condolences in the local husseiniya. Selman spent his last night in a mortuary refrigerator before being burried in a cemetery, located at the town’s outlying skirts, offered by Al Assaad family.
No pictures nor flags where brandished during the funeral ceremony. Only few bullets fired into the air had pierced the silence which overshadowed the convoy as caution prevailed in fear of potential pursuants.
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