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| March 14 Hands U.N. Petition Demanding STL Probe All Assassinations |
| 2014-02-28 |
| [An Nahar] The March 14 forces on Thursday handed the U.N. secretary-general's representative in Leb a petition demanding the expansion of the Special Tribunal for Leb's mandate to cover all liquidations against March 14 figures. "We handed the U.N. secretary-general's representative in Leb a petition signed by 69 MPs and demanding the expansion of the STL's jurisdiction to involve all liquidation crimes that targeted Lebanese leaders, from the attempt on MP Marwan Hamadeh's life to the liquidation of martyr minister Mohammed Shatah," al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Atef Majdalani said after a March 14 delegation handed the petition to U.N. Special Coordinator for Leb Derek Plumbly. According to Majdalani, the petition was signed by four premiers and former premiers and the parliamentary blocs of al-Mustaqbal, the National Struggle Front, the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... , the Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. , and independent MPs. "The criminals managed to assassinate an elite group of our leaders but they did not and will not manage to evade punishment or break the will of the Lebanese to achieve freedom, independence and decent living," Majdalani stressed. |
| Posted by:Fred |