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THE
INTERNATIONAL LEBANESE COMMITTEE
For UNSCR
1559
2300 M Street NW, Suite 800,
Washington DC, USA 20037
Phone ( 202) 416 1819, Fax ( 202)
293 3083
www.UN1559.org
SG1559@UN1559.org
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UN to investigate former president Lahoud’s
crimes
Washington
Nov 24th 2007
The ILC 1559 expresses its satisfaction that former President Emile
Lahoud has finally left the Presidential Palace in Baabda after more
than three years from his illegal extension of power, a breach of laws
and principles which was addressed by one stipulation of the UNSCR
1559 issued in September 2004, one day after the constitutional piracy
was forced on the Lebanese People. However now that Mr. Lahoud has
left the office, the Committee is calling on the UN special prosecutor
in the Terrorist attacks in Lebanon since the fall of 2004 and the
special envoy of the Secretary General of the UN to investigate General
Lahoud regarding the following serious charges:
1. The
Hariri and Lebanese politicians assassinations:
General Lahoud was an imposed President of Lebanon between October
2004 and November 2007. Under his Presidential mandate six political
leaders, including legislators and a minister were savagely
assassinated and two political activists murdered for political
reasons. Under his Presidency the joint operations room between his
regime, the Syrian regime and Hezbollah was still in function. General
Lahoud was the higher supervisor of this joint operation room and thus
is aware of the cooperation between the two regimes and Hezbollah in
Lebanon during this period of time. A UN investigation with General
Lahoud is now warranted in the Terror assassinations of Prime
Minister Rafiq Hariri, MP Basem Fleihan and their escort, Samir Qassir,
George Hawi, MP Gebran Tueni, Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel, MP Walid
Eido and MP Antoine Ghanem. General Lahoud as the highest security
official overseeing the joint intelligence operation room along with
the Syrian regime and Hezbollah must be investigated at once by the
UN investigation committee.
2.
The assassination of Lebanese activists:
General Lahoud, being the head of the regime between 1998 ad 2007 and
the highest authority overseeing the intelligence joint operation room
with Syria and Hezbollah, should also be investigated in the
assassination of Lebanese political activists who were kidnapped,
tortured and killed between 1998 and 2007.
3.
The Lebanese detainee in Syria:
General Lahoud, being the head of the regime between 1998 ad 2007 and
the highest authority overseeing the intelligence joint operation room
with Syria and Hezbollah, should also be investigated in the illegal
arrest, kidnapping and transfer to Syrian jails of hundreds of
Lebanese and non Lebanese national where they were tortured and some
have been killed while others are still unaccounted for.
4.
The Lebanese military and civilians murdered in 1990
General Lahoud, having deserted the legal Lebanese Army in 1990 and appointed
by a Syrian-backed Government as a new commander of a Syrian
controlled Lebanese Army that same year took responsibility for a
joint Syrian-Lebanese military operation against the Ministry of
Defense and the Presidential Palace in Lebanon between 7 AM and 5 PM
on October 13, 1990. During that operation hundreds of Lebanese
soldiers and civilians were executed against all norms of
international law and a number of military personnel and civilians
were detained and transferred to Syria. General Lahoud should be
investigated for information he may have kept about these executions
and the fate of the vanished persons.
The Committee 1559 also calls on the parents and relatives of all the
victims mentioned above to inform the UN Investigation Commission
about all questions related to these crimes and acts of terror, so
that the investigation with General Lahoud can be comprehensive.
Tom Harb
Secretary General
The International Lebanese Committee
For UNSCR 1559
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