A fearfully light coffin is carried to a Beirut grave. Who will be next?
By Robert Fisk in Beirut
Published: 15 December 2005
How well the Lebanese do funerals. "Who's next?" one of the posters asked beside the cortege of Jibran Tueni, journalist, editor, opposition MP, man-about-town, another young life lost to Lebanon; and, of course, we were all asking the same question.
The military band with its pompous trumpets, the sweating police with their poppy-red berets, the bossy soldiers who hopelessly tried to console the crowds, all were used to this routine. Was it so long ago that I had stood in this same Place de l'Etoile for the body of George Hawi, the old, murdered ex-Communist leader, to be anointed in the same Greek Orthodox church?
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