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Trial Begins in The Hague on Murder of Lebanese PM Hariri


[AFP] A landmark international tribunal to try the suspected killers of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq Hariri opened in The Hague Sunday. Chief prosecutor Daniel Bellemare said the Special Tribunal for Lebanon constituted the world's first anti-terrorist court. The tribunal, which includes 11 judges, four of them Lebanese, was created by a 2007 UN Security Council resolution and will apply Lebanese law. It has an initial, renewable, three-year mandate.
2009-03-02 06:00:00
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