On Tuesday, the Lebanese people will celebrate an important achievement attained by a civil movement in a long time. The Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Missing has proved that there is no room for despair if there is a quest for change. The struggle that started in 1982 resulted this year in an achievement that challenges the system.
Earlier this year, the families managed to seize a court order obligating the state to hand over the report on the disappeared and missing submitted by the official investigation committees. However, the most significant accomplishment, which concerns the Lebanese people as a whole, is that the continuous attempts by the system to instill despair have failed.
The families were more patient than the system expected and used the weapon of strategic litigation. Tomorrow's celebration comes as a clear declaration: We have won a round against the system, and all its representatives at the Beirut Bar Association (BBA).