The Kataeb Party supports justice and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), party leader Amin Gemayel said in a statement on Thursday.
Tension is high in Lebanon after unconfirmed reports that the STL will soon issue its indictment for the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. There are fears that should the court indict Hezbollah members, it could lead to clashes similar to those of the 2008 May Events. March 8 coalition politicians are calling for the abolition of the tribunal.
On Wednesday morning, a group of women charged at STL investigators at a Beirut gynecology clinic in Dahiyeh and grabbed a briefcase from them. Afterward the STL condemned the attack and said that its investigators had arranged to interview clinic owner Dr. Iman Charara with approval from the Lebanese authorities, the Doctors Syndicate and the doctor herself.
“The real crisis Lebanon faces is not being discussed in the country today,” said Gemayel, stating that “the real crisis existed even before the tribunal or the assassinations.”
He added that Lebanon faces a basic choice over the type of regime that will govern it: “is it a totalitarian regime or a democratic system that reaches freedom?”
Tension is high in Lebanon after unconfirmed reports that the STL will soon issue its indictment for the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. There are fears that should the court indict Hezbollah members, it could lead to clashes similar to those of the 2008 May Events. March 8 coalition politicians are calling for the abolition of the tribunal.
On Wednesday morning, a group of women charged at STL investigators at a Beirut gynecology clinic in Dahiyeh and grabbed a briefcase from them. Afterward the STL condemned the attack and said that its investigators had arranged to interview clinic owner Dr. Iman Charara with approval from the Lebanese authorities, the Doctors Syndicate and the doctor herself.
“The real crisis Lebanon faces is not being discussed in the country today,” said Gemayel, stating that “the real crisis existed even before the tribunal or the assassinations.”
He added that Lebanon faces a basic choice over the type of regime that will govern it: “is it a totalitarian regime or a democratic system that reaches freedom?”
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