On February 14th, St Valentine's Day, a vast throng of flag-waving mourners gathered in Beirut's Martyrs' Square for the second anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Lebanon has grown used to such giant displays of people power. But this was an angry, defiant show of numbers, unlike the joyous rallies in the months immediately after the killing of Mr Hariri, a five-time prime minister whose death, along with 22 others, in a massive truck bombing set off a political upheaval that many hoped would free this country from meddling neighbours and end its own bitter divisions.
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