CBC Hariri report aimed at fuelling tensions: Hezbollah MP
AFP
BEIRUT- A Hezbollah MP on Saturday slammed a Canadian media report that the Shiite group would be implicated in the murder of Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, saying it aimed to fuel religious tensions.
"It is an American film whose purpose is to introduce religious strife to Lebanon," Nawwar al-Sahili said in a statement distributed by Hezbollah.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired a documentary on Monday citing unidentified sources saying that UN investigators had evidence that "points overwhelmingly" to the involvement of members of the militant group.
The prosecutor of a UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon into the 2005 assassination of Hariri, Daniel Bellemare, has criticised the CBC report and said it could endanger lives.
"The most serious impact of the CBC reports is that their broadcast may put people’s lives in jeopardy," Bellemare said in a statement on Tuesday.
Hariri's son, Lebanon's current Prime Minister Saad Hariri, has also dismissed the CBC report.
Sahili said the tribunal based in The Hague is an "international farce directed by the Americans."
Hezbollah has said it would not accept the indictment of its members in connection with the assassination and warned of repercussions, raising fears in Lebanon of sectarian conflict.
The group's leader Hassan Nasrallah was expected to speak on the subject on Sunday.
No date has been set for the international tribunal to issue any indictments but it is widely believed in Lebanon's political circles that the court will do so by the end of the year.
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The prosecutor of a UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon into the 2005 assassination of Hariri, Daniel Bellemare, has criticised the CBC report and said it could endanger lives.
"The most serious impact of the CBC reports is that their broadcast may put people’s lives in jeopardy," Bellemare said in a statement on Tuesday.
Hariri's son, Lebanon's current Prime Minister Saad Hariri, has also dismissed the CBC report.
Sahili said the tribunal based in The Hague is an "international farce directed by the Americans."
Hezbollah has said it would not accept the indictment of its members in connection with the assassination and warned of repercussions, raising fears in Lebanon of sectarian conflict.
The group's leader Hassan Nasrallah was expected to speak on the subject on Sunday.
No date has been set for the international tribunal to issue any indictments but it is widely believed in Lebanon's political circles that the court will do so by the end of the year.
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