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PRESS REVIEW

July 17, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Aoun fears dramatic scenario, advises Nasrallah to change rules of game

Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun has warned of tension that could arise from an indictment to be issued later this year by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, As-Safir newspaper quoted on Saturday an unnamed source as saying.

The paper said that Aoun advised Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during his meeting with him earlier in the week “to change the rules of the game as there is a Lebanese faction that is still betting on a new Israeli war.”

He added that there are military groups in Lebanon, especially among the Christians—a possible reference to the Kataeb Party and Lebanese Forces—that want to change the status quo in Christian areas. All of this will lead to internal conflicts in Lebanon, he also said.

Aoun voiced fears of a dramatic scenario in which the STL’s indictment would lead to tension and a possible Israeli military strike on Lebanon.

“This scenario would leave the Resistance caught between the Israeli fire on the one hand, and the fire of internal strife on the other,” the paper added.

This comes after Nasrallah said on Friday that an indictment by the STL is an “Israeli project” designed to target Hezbollah by stirring up sectarian strife in Lebanon.

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Background - خلفية

On 13 December 2005 the Government of the Lebanese Republic requested the UN to establish a tribunal of an international character to try all those who are alleged responsible for the attack of 14 february 2005 that killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others. The United Nations and the Lebanese Republic consequently negotiated an agreement on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Liens - Links - مواقع ذات صلة

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, David Schenker , March 30, 2010 . Beirut Spring: The Hariri Tribunal Goes Hunting for Hizballah


Frederic Megret, McGill University, 2008. A special tribunal for Lebanon: the UN Security Council and the emancipation of International Criminal Justice


International Center for Transitional Justice Handbook on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, April 10, 2008


United Nations
Conférence de presse de Nicolas Michel, 19 Sept 2007
Conférence de presse de Nicolas Michel, 27 Mars 2008


Département d'Etat américain
* 2009 Human Rights report
* 2008 Human Rights report
* 2007 Human Rights report
* 2006 Human Rights report
* 2005 Human Rights report



ICG - International Crisis Group
The Hariri Tribunal: Separate the Political and the Judicial, 19 July, 2007. [Fr]


HCSS - Hague Centre for strategic studies
Hariri, Homicide and the Hague


Human Rights Watch
* Hariri Tribunal can restore faith in law, 11 may 2006
* Letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, april 27, 2006


Amnesty International
* STL insufficient without wider action to combat impunity
* Liban : le Tribunal de tous les dangers, mai 2007
* Jeu de mecano


Courrier de l'ACAT - Wadih Al Asmar
Le Tribunal spécial pour le Liban : entre espoir et inquiétude


Georges Corm
La justice penale internationale pour le Liban : bienfait ou malediction?


Nadim Shedadi and Elizabeth Wilmshurt, Chatham House
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon : the UN on Trial?, July 2007


Issam Michael Saliba, Law Library of Congress
International Tribunals, National Crimes and the Hariri Assassination : a novel development in International Criminal Law, June 2007


Mona Yacoubian, Council on Foreign Relations
Linkages between Special UN Tribunal, Lebanon, and Syria, June 1, 2007