{"id":46418,"date":"2021-01-08T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/46418-special-tribunal-for-lebanon-the-mountain-that-gave-birth-to-a-mouse.html"},"modified":"2021-01-08T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T08:09:00","slug":"special-tribunal-for-lebanon-the-mountain-that-gave-birth-to-a-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/46418-special-tribunal-for-lebanon-the-mountain-that-gave-birth-to-a-mouse.html","title":{"rendered":"Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The mountain that gave birth to a mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, the Hague-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) pronounced its first sentence since its creation 13 years ago. Lebanese <\/strong>l<\/strong>awyer and activist Habib Nassar has closely monitored the STL since its inception. He describes how and why the Lebanese are <\/strong>mocking the judgement as absurd and denouncing it as politicized. And how this tribunal has showed the worst of international justice institutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Following the establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in 2007, colleagues and I wrote an article<\/a> in which we concluded that the \u201cSTL remains limited in scope and, at most, can only be a first step toward establishing a culture of accountability in Lebanon.\u201d More than a decade later, the court\u2019s first judgement in the case that triggered its creation shows that even our reluctant optimism back in 2007 may have been unwarranted. Worse, the STL may have actually contributed to reinforce the culture of impunity that has prevailed in Lebanon since its independence.<\/p>\n

After 15 years of investigations and a trial in which were involved three successive international bodies \u2013 the UNSG-appointed Fitzgerald Fact Finding Mission, the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) and the STL itself \u2013 the tribunal\u2019s Trial Chamber pronounced on 18 August 2020 a judgement that convicted in absentia Salim Ayyash, a lower ranking Hezbollah operative (referred to by the judgement as a Hezbollah supporter), of the assassination of Lebanon\u2019s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a massive blast that killed 22 people. Three other defendants, also at large, were acquitted. On 11 December 2020, Ayyash was sentenced by the STL to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

The original sin: A drop in an ocean of unpunished crimes<\/h3>\n

Lebanon has witnessed a succession of wars since 1975 that were marked by very serious human rights violations including war crimes and crimes against humanity that have remained unaddressed. The 1975-1990 war ended with a blanket amnesty law that completely ignored victims\u2019 rights and demands. Also, the well-documented war crimes that occurred during the July 2006 war opposing Israel and Hezbollah are still unpunished to this day. In May 2008, the sectarian violence that erupted in Lebanon following the deployment of Hezbollah fighters in Beirut and neighboring areas was accompanied by egregious crimes that were never dealt with. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In this context of widespread abuses and persistent impunity, the legitimacy of the STL in the eyes of the Lebanese was from the very outset undermined by its narrow mandate which many saw as no more than selective justice. (The STL\u2019s primary mandate is to try those accused of the attack of 14 February 2005 which killed Hariri. It also has jurisdiction for a few other attacks connected to the Hariri assassination.) The STL judgement did nothing to address the legitimacy problem the institution suffered from since its inception. On the contrary, the judgment\u2019s pronouncement was perceived by most Lebanese as the proverbial mountain that gave birth to a mouse.<\/p>\n

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The legitimacy of the STL in the eyes of the Lebanese was from the very outset undermined by its narrow mandate which many saw as no more than selective justice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Despite its original sin of selectivity, the STL could have offered an opportunity to break the cycle of impunity for political assassinations in the country. Indeed, Lebanon has witnessed since its independence hundreds of political assassinations or attempts that remained unpunished. They have targeted senior government officials, high profile political figures, parliamentarians, leading journalists and intellectuals, including two presidents and three prime ministers. Many of these attacks were followed by violence and instability that left hundreds of victims. By ending total impunity for this succession of assassinations and the ensuing violence, the hope was that an accountability precedent would be set in the country. However, for this to happen, the STL prosecutor needed to take full advantage of the huge capabilities at his disposal and the robust legal tools the STL statute provides him with to expose the system that has enabled the assassinations falling within the court\u2019s jurisdiction and unpack the chain of command behind these crimes.<\/p>\n

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An absurd conclusion<\/h3>\n

Following the multiples failures of the Lebanese investigation into the Hariri assassination that many saw as a succession of cover-up attempts, the Lebanese had the hope that the capabilities and independence guaranteed through an international court would ensure that those responsible for ordering and executing the assassination of Hariri that also left 21 dead will be held accountable, no matter how influential or powerful they may be.<\/p>\n

After spending close to one billion dollars<\/a> according to estimates, nine years of investigation and six years of trial, the STL convicted a lower ranking Hezbollah operative of the assassination strangely stating in its judgement that \u201cSyria and Hezbollah may have had motives to eliminate Mr Hariri, and some of his political allies\u201d but \u201c[t]here is no evidence that the Hezbollah leadership had any involvement in Mr Hariri\u2019s murder and there is no direct evidence of Syrian involvement in it\u201d, adding that \u201cthere is no evidence that Mr Ayyash or Mr Badreddine [a Hezbollah military commander who was initially indicted but subsequently killed in Syria in unknown circumstances in 2016] were directed by the Hezbollah leadership to arrange logistical support for Mr Hariri\u2019s assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anyone with basic knowledge of Hezbollah would know that it would be impossible to conduct an operation of such magnitude targeting a leading political figure in Lebanon and the region without the involvement of the group\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anyone with basic knowledge of Hezbollah would know that it would be impossible to conduct an operation of such magnitude targeting a leading political figure in Lebanon and the region without the involvement of the group\u2019s leadership. Hezbollah is a highly hierarchical and centralized organization where no such operation could be arranged or executed without orders \u2013 let alone the knowledge \u2013 by its top leadership.<\/p>\n

The judgement was met with a mix of disbelief, derision and resentment among the Lebanese but also the Syrian public. Within hours, social media platforms filled up with comments mocking the judgement as absurd and denouncing it as politicized. According to one of the many jokes that circulated following the judgement, it appears that Salim Ayyash got up one morning on the wrong side of the bed and decided to kill Lebanon\u2019s most powerful politician. In another witticism, the whole case would come down to Ayyash giving a phone call (the judgement mostly relied on telecommunication data) in reference to an unrelated Arabic song from the 1990s by Lebanese popular musician Ziad Rahbani called talfan Ayyash<\/em><\/a> (Ayyash called). <\/em><\/p>\n

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Bending to political threats<\/h3>\n

Nevertheless, for those closely following the process, the outcome was by and large predictable since the Trial Chamber had to stick to the indictments and evidence submitted by the prosecutor. But a question immediately comes to mind here: Why did the prosecutor clearly choose to avoid looking into the chain of command behind the Hariri assassination? If solid evidence of direct orders by the group\u2019s leadership were unavailable, why did the prosecutor abstain from looking into command responsibility as provided for in article 3, paragraph 2 of the STL statute?<\/p>\n

Serious doubts about the prosecutor\u2019s work were voiced by prominent Lebanese journalist Michael Young who covered the investigation since its early days. He suggests in a damning piece<\/a> published ahead of the judgement that Serge Brammertz, STL\u2019s first prosecutor, \u201cdid not want to uncover anything\u201d because he \u201cmay have sensed that the [UN] was worried that naming Hariri\u2019s assassins would lead to sectarian conflict\u201d in the region following threats made by Syrian President Bashar Assad to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during a meeting in Damascus<\/a> and subsequently leaked to the press.<\/p>\n

The mirage of political independence<\/h3>\n

In the evening of the judgment day, to the shock of many Lebanese, Charles Rizk \u2013 who as Lebanon\u2019s Minister of Justice back in 2006\/2007 oversaw the negotiations with the UN on the establishment of the STL \u2013 revealed on a popular talk-show<\/a> that he shared every draft of the STL statute with Hezbollah\u2019s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah during the negotiations and added that he did it in coordination with Wafik Safa whose name actually appears more than twenty times in the STL judgement as Head of Hezbollah\u2019s Central Unit of Liaison and Coordination back in 2005.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese were hoping that an international court shielded from political pressure and interference would be able to independently and fully investigate the massive blast that killed Hariri on Beirut\u2019s waterfront in 2005. But the STL judgment left them with the impression that the tribunal\u2019s independence was only a mirage and the feeling that yet again impunity would prevail. And their resentment was exacerbated when they learned through media reports how exorbitant the process\u2019s price tag was. For the past 13 years, Lebanese taxpayers have annually contributed to 49% of the STL budget.<\/p>\n

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The Lebanese were hoping that an international court shielded from political pressure and interference would be able to independently and fully investigate. But the STL judgment left them with the impression that the tribunal\u2019s independence was only a mirage and the feeling that yet again impunity would prevail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The one individual involved in the investigation that the Lebanese remembered with emotion and whose memory they saluted on the day of the judgement was Captain Wissam Eid<\/a>, the 32-year old Lebanese police investigator whose groundbreaking work uncovered the telecommunication data that served as a central piece of evidence in the case. Wissam Eid was killed in 2008 by a car bomb in the suburbs of Beirut. Another senior Lebanese investigator into Hariri\u2019s assassination, Samir Shehadeh, had survived a roadside bomb that targeted his convoy two years earlier and left him seriously injured. The STL which massively relied on Eid\u2019s work could not ensure his safety and protection. In its 2228-page judgement, the tribunal never mentions Eid\u2019s name except marginally, in footnote number 4644.<\/p>\n

The worst model at the worst time<\/h3>\n

In sum, the STL has proven to combine in one tribunal some of the worst downsides of international justice institutions \u2013 a costly process, heavy bureaucracy and disconnect from those it is meant to deliver justice to \u2013 with the most acute problems that so often characterize national criminal processes : strong suspicions of political interference and serious security risks for those involved in an investigation.<\/p>\n

Such conclusion could not come at a worst moment for Lebanon, but also Syria. The judgement was delivered two weeks after another gigantic blast devasted Beirut on August 4, 2020, killing more than 200, injuring thousands and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. For the Lebanese, only an international investigation could be trusted to uncover its causes and identify those responsible. However, the STL judgement came like a cold shower and dashed the hopes that an international body could effectively deliver the truth on the August 4 explosion.<\/p>\n

It was a shock for Syrians too. For a decade, they have been struggling for justice and accountability for the horrific crimes they have suffered since 2011. They can now seriously question the ability of international justice to deliver.<\/p>\n

As the first and only international criminal court established in the Middle East and North Africa region, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was seen as a first step towards accountability. It gave hope to victims. 13 years later, it turns out to be yet another setback for justice whose legacy would only perpetuate Lebanon\u2019s culture of impunity.<\/p>\n

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Habib Nassar is Director of Policy and Research at Impunity Watch. He is a lawyer and human rights advocate with nearly 20 years of experience in matters of accountability, justice and redress for victims. He has extensive experience working in several contexts in the Middle East and North Africa region including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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