UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced his plan to appoint Daniel Bellemare, former Canadian Deputy Attorney-General, as the next head of the independent commission tasked with investigating the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Ban sent a letter to the Security Council on November 13, detailing his intention to appoint\u00c2\u00a0Mr. Bellemare Commissioner of the International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC).<\/p>\n
The IIIC was set up\u00c2\u00a0in April 2005, after Mr. Hariri was assassinated in a massive car bombing in Beirut in Feburary of that year.\u00c2\u00a0 The commision is also\u00c2\u00a0investigating at least 17 other cases in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Secretary-General Ban has\u00c2\u00a0moved to establish\u00c2\u00a0a special tribunal of an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153international character\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to try the\u00c2\u00a0suspected perpetrators\u00c2\u00a0of Mr. Hariri’s assassination\u00c2\u00a0and subsequent killings in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
The full story is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The October 2005 “Mehlis Report”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0concluded that\u00c2\u00a0members of the Syrian and Lebanese governments were involved in\u00c2\u00a0Hariri’s assassination.\u00c2\u00a0 The December 2005 follow-up is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced his plan to appoint Daniel Bellemare, former Canadian Deputy Attorney-General, as the next head 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