BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized Thursday
a draft law passed by Parliament aimed at facilitating the return of
Israeli-allied Lebanese militiamen and their families who fled to Israel in the
wake of its withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000.
“The current draft law does not provide any solution,” Geagea
told journalists at his residence in Maarab.
Referring to the bill approved by Parliament Wednesday, Geagea
said: “What was presented in Parliament yesterday in this regard is not
different from what is taking place on the ground. Women and children are
questioned and their conditions are settled, while men are referred to the
courts. Therefore, this law does not change the situation and does not present
anything new.”
Under the urgent draft law, which was submitted by MPs from
Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement, those who joined the South Lebanon Army
or collaborated with it will be arrested by the authorities upon their return
and tried under Lebanese law.
As for their families and other Lebanese who left for Israel, an
amendment to the bill allows them to return under certain mechanisms and regulations
to be stipulated later in decrees issued by the Cabinet.
The law
stipulates that the return should take place within one year of the issuance of
the decrees.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Nov-04/153112-geagea-sla-return-law-nothing-new.ashx#axzz1ckcjk1Dj
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