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August 9, 2011

The Daily Star - UNHCR will not issue report targeting Hezbollah - August 09, 2011


BEIRUT: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Monday denied reports carried by Al-Arabiya over the weekend, citing Radio France, that said the agency was planning to publish a report claiming Hezbollah had been involved in the killing of Syrian Army defectors. The reports were picked up by several Lebanese news outlets.
The alleged report was said to run to 20 pages, and was alleged to contain interviews with former Syrian Army members who are now living as refugees in Turkey.
“The UNHCR has categorically denied the information published on the website of Al-Arabiya news channel on Aug. 5 quoting French sources and attributing inaccurate statements to UNHCR. The same statement draws reference to a report which the High Commissioner for Refugees has no connection to, and which has also recently been carried in newspapers in Lebanon,” the UNHCR statement said.
Hezbollah denied the reports Sunday, slamming the unpublished report as proof of a wider conspiracy against its organization.
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