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UN Will Try Accused Assassins of Ex-Lebanese PM

Posted May 31, 07 10:15 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – A UN tribunal will try suspects in the 2005 assassination of the ex-PM of Lebanon, raising fears of worsening unrest in the unstable country. Five members abstained from yesterday's Security Council vote, signaling a serious rift. And Syria, which has been implicated in the suicide truck-bomb attack that killed Rafik Hariri, warned against the establishment of the tribunal.

PM Fouad Siniora backed the vote, which the opposition-controlled parliament had opposed. Hariri's assassination helped drive Syria out of Lebanon after 29 years of occupation, and Damascus has maintained that Syrian suspects should be tried in their own country. Syria's UN ambassador called the vote "something that goes against the interests of the Lebanese people and Lebanon as a whole."

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Lebanese demonstrators carry heart-shaped pictures of assassinated Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.   (Getty Images)
A poster of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri sits next to his grave in Beirut, Lebanon.   (Associated Press)
A mosaic of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri, with the words in arabic "Lebanon First" is seen at his grave in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.   (Associated Press)
Lebanese wave their country's flag.   (Getty Images (by Event))
The shadow of a demonstrator falls on the Lebanese flag.   (Getty Images)
Syrians wave their national flags.   (Getty Images (by Event))
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