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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

Now Lebanon - Hariri will need force to execute STL decision, Wahhab warns - September 6

Prime Minister Saad Hariri will have no choice but to “form armed or unarmed forces to execute the decisions of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on Lebanese territory,” Tawhid Movement leader Wiam Wahhab said in Monday’s issue of Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa.

In July, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the STL is an Israeli project and will indict members of his party.

The solution to the current situation is for “Hariri and his followers to step back from their project to grab power,” Wahhab added, saying that since 2005, they have “traded the flag of resistance for knives to stab Hezbollah in its back and heart.”

Nasrallah said on Friday that “a knife was put in our wound and twisted” through political exploitation of the August 24 clashes in Beirut between supporters of Hezbollah and those of Sunni group al-Ahbash.

That evening, Hariri responded by saying, “I am not the one holding a knife. I am the son of [former Prime Minister] Rafik Hariri and I will remain modest.”

“PM Hariri speaks two contradictory languages and uses two different faces, one Egyptian-American and the other Lebanese-Syrian,” Wahhab also said, adding that Hariri is toeing the Egyptian-Jordanian-American line in peace negotiations and this may affect Lebanon’s domestic scene negatively.

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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