iloubnan - Geagea after the arrest warrants issuance: 'Martyrs can now rest in peace" - June 30, 2011

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said on Thursday at a press conference that "martyrs can now rest in peace because justice is finally done after the issuance of the indictment." 

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri has issued arrest warrants against four Lebanese suspects in the case and presented it to Lebanon prosecutor Said Mirza. 

"The government is responsible for the ongoing monitoring of the Tribunal work” said Samir Geagea, ensuring that "the decisions of the TSL are inevitable." 

Geagea said that "any attempt to escape the Judgement of the STL is a betrayal of Lebanon." 

The head of the LF has also called on the Cabinet "to implement the arrest warrants and to cooperate with the Tribunal regarding the protocols." 

"The charges of the Court are individual, regardless of the accused person's affiliation to any party, confession or country" he added. 

Then he called "the families of the martyrs of March 14 to act wisely and to follow the court proceedings calmly." 

"Vengeance has never been an option," he said.