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Centre Libanais des droits humains (CLDH) a pour objectif de rendre accessible à l'opinion publique toute l'information relative au Tribunal Spécial pour le Liban : revue de presse quotidienne en anglais, francais et arabe ; documents onusiens ; rapports, etc...
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PRESS REVIEW

August 2, 2010 - Naharnet - Israel Denies Hand in Hariri Killing: Entire Lebanon will Pay Dearly if Hizbullah Attacks Israel

Spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Ofir Gendelman denied any Israeli involvement the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri.
"Talking about an Israeli hand in the assassination of Hariri is nonsense and based on the principle of a conspiracy," Gendelman said in an interview to be published Tuesday by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai.

Excerpts of the interview were published on Monday.

"Everyone knows who was behind Hariri's assassination of Hariri. And Israel was never involved in this and it does not and will not interfere in Lebanese internal affairs," Netanyahu's spokesman stressed.

"Of course, circles who are spreading this word want to see Israel in the spotlight, or that the side which is behind the assassination wants to evade responsibility.

On the assassination of Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, Gendelman confirmed that Israel "will take into account the possibility of Hizbullah assassinating a senior Israeli official, or an ambassador or an Israeli citizen abroad or kidnap an Israeli businessman or officer or a senior government employee abroad."

"This would be considered as a declaration of war, and we will take this threat very seriously."

Gendelman pointed to Israeli concerns over Hizbullah's military buildup, stressing that Israel is "not interested in waging war on Lebanon."

Regarding Hizbullah threats to bombard Israeli towns and the Jewish state's infrastructure, the spokesman warned that "all of Lebanon will pay dearly if Hizbullah attacks Israel."

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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