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PRESS REVIEW

July 26, 2010 - Iloubnan - Hezbollah chief urges cross-party political support (Engl/Fr)


Lebanon's Hezbollah chief, who has said he expects a UN tribunal to indict rogue members of his party for the killing of former premier Rafiq Hariri, on Sunday called for political support and talks. (FRENCH BELOW)

"Accusations are being invented against our party... There are a lot of preparations being made against Lebanon and the resistance," Hassan Nasrallah said in a broadcast speech, using the standard Lebanese term for Hezbollah.

"If the cabinet or the national dialogue committee meets to discuss the issue, we will support that," he said. "There is something being prepared (against Hezbollah). So we must together consider how to confront it, how to deal with this matter," Nasrallah added. "We will not allow anyone, however important, to affect the dignity of the resistance, something very close to our hearts."

In a rare news conference on Thursday, Nasrallah said Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the slain ex-premier, told him months ago that Hezbollah members would be accused by the UN-backed court tasked with trying Hariri's alleged killers.

He said Hariri had also assured him that he would publicly avow that it was "undisciplined" Hezbollah members, and not the party itself, who were implicated in the killing.

Politicians and judges, including tribunal president Antonio Cassese, have said they expect an indictment by the end of 2010, sparking fears of a repeat of the violence that in May 2008 brought Lebanon close to a new civil war.

Hariri on Saturday called for "calm" in Lebanon in the face of "attempts... to organise campaigns aimed at sowing confusion and concern in the minds of the Lebanese people."

Nasrallah's speech was broadcast on Sunday at a ceremony to honour the sons and daughters of Hezbollah "martyrs," and to an audience of party officials and supporters, including controversial former British MP George Galloway.

Nasrallah appelle les politiques à soutenir le Hezbollah
Le chef du Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, qui a dit récemment s'attendre à une mise en cause de membres de son parti par un tribunal de l'ONU dans l'assassinat du dirigeant Rafic Hariri, a appelé dimanche la classe politique libanaise à soutenir le mouvement chiite.

"Nous sommes une partie contre laquelle on fabrique une accusation (...) il y a un grand complot qui se prépare contre le Liban et contre la Résistance (le Hezbollah, ndlr)", a affirmé Nasrallah dans un discours diffusé sur écran géant à l'occasion d'une cérémonie en l'honneur des fils et filles de
"martyrs" du Hezbollah.

"Si le Conseil des ministres ou le Comité de dialogue national se réunissent pour discuter de cette question, nous y sommes favorables", a-t-il dit, en référence au comité chargé de discuter de la stratégie de défense du pays.

"Il y a quelque chose qui se prépare (contre le Hezbollah). Nous devons donc voir tous ensemble comment y faire face, comment traiter cette question", a-t-il poursuivi. "Nous ne permettrons à personne au monde, quelque soit son importance, de toucher à la dignité de la Résistance, qui est la chose la plus chère à nos coeurs", a-t-il prévenu.

Jeudi, Nasrallah avait affirmé que le Premier ministre Saad Hariri l'avait informé en mai que des membres du Hezbollah seraient "désignés par l'acte d'accusation" du Tribunal spécial pour le Liban (TSL), créé en 2007 par l'ONU. Le TSL doit publier l'acte d'accusation entre "septembre et décembre", selon son président Antonio Cassese.

La perspective d'une mise en cause du Hezbollah, acteur incontournable de la politique libanaise, fait craindre un renouvellement des violences à caractère confessionnel de mai 2008 qui avaient opposé des partisans du sunnite Saad Hariri et ceux du parti chiite, et fait une centaine de morts.

Samedi, M. Hariri a réagi au discours de Nasrallah en appelant au "calme" face aux "tentatives (...) d'organiser des campagnes pour inquiéter les Libanais".

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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