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PRESS REVIEW

Now Lebanon - If abolishing STL fosters peace, then let it be, says Jumblatt - September 17, 2010

Democratic Gathering bloc leader MP Walid Jumblatt told LBCI television on Thursday that “if abolishing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) fosters peace, then why not?”

He said that he never discussed the issue with Prime Minister Saad Hariri, adding that his statement reflects his personal opinion.

However, he said that “the timing is wrong to stop [Lebanon’s] funding of the STL,” adding that “the decision [to suspend funding] should be taken unanimously by all parties.”

Lebanon is heading toward “grave danger,” Jumblatt told the TV station, emphasizing that parties must find a mechanism to resolve their disputes.

The MP also warned from a possible sedition between Sunnis and the Shia in the country before stating that disputes over the STL should be resolved between Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, “especially after Nasrallah presented new evidence [on the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri] that should be taken into account.”

On August 9, the Hezbollah chief presented alleged evidence of Israeli involvement in the Rafik Hariri murder, including footage he said came from Israeli Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) monitoring the former PM and a confession from a suspected Israeli spy.

Jumblatt voiced his readiness to take part in any initiative between Hariri, Nasrallah or Speaker Nabih Berri to resolve contentious issues.

He also said that he rejected the statements of Former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun.

Aoun said on Tuesday that the state has fallen and that “the judiciary is burning,” while Sayyed earlier in the week stated that “[PM Saad Hariri] should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the STL,” investigating the murder of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri.

-NOW 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