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| Lebanon: Exiles To Return From Israel |
| 2006-04-08 |
| Dozens of Lebanese nationals who collaborated with Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon - and who fled to Israel in the wake of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 - are set to return home. The announcement was made Friday in a statement by the Free Patriotic Movement headed by former Lebanese general, Michel Aoun. The deal to allow the estimated 60, mostly Christian Maronite exiles, who fled Lebanon in fear of repercussions for collaborating with the Israelis, was first mooted in February in talks between the Maronite Aoun and Hezbollah leaders. "There are some 60 Lebanese citizens, who have not committed any crimes in terms of Lebanon's judiciary and many of them are women or they are elderly," Gibran Basil, an official of Aoun's party, told Adnkronos International (AKI). "A dozen of the exiles should return before Easter while the rest will come back by mid-May," Basil explained. |
| Posted by:Fred |