fredag 29 oktober 2010

Hizzbollah försöker stoppa mordutredning

Hizzbolahs ledare Nasrallah gör vad han kan för att sätta käppar i hjulet för FN:s utredning av vem som mördade Libanons förre premiärminister.
Nasrallah uppmanar alla libaneser att bojkotta utredningen och igår anfölls utredarna av en uppretad folkmassa.
Det antas allmänt att misstänkta till mordet finns bland Hizzbollahs medlemmar.

Nasrallah calls for boycott of Hariri tribunal (Jerusalem Post)


BEIRUT— The leader of Hizbullah called Thursday on all Lebanese to boycott the UN tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of a former prime minister, saying all information gathered by the team was being sent to Israel.

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah spoke Thursday, a day after a crowd of women attacked two UN investigators and a Lebanese interpreter as they gathered evidence at a private gynecology clinic in Beirut. The women scuffled with investigators and stole several items from them.


In a reaction late Thursday, the tribunal criticized Nasrallah's boycott appeal and vowed to continue its investigation.

"Any call to boycott the tribunal is a deliberate attempt to obstruct justice," the court said in a statement. "The Special Tribunal for Lebanon will continue to rely on full cooperation by the Lebanese government and the support of the international community in fulfilling its mandate, in accordance with its statute."


The UN chief stressed that the tribunal is an independent court, established at the Lebanese government's request with a mandate from the UN Security Council, which is "an important tool to uncover the truth and end impunity," UN spokesman Nesirky said.

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