{"id":318259,"date":"2010-02-14T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2010-02-14T03:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T08:01:59","slug":"how%e2%80%99s-that-un-hariri-tribunal-doing-not-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/318259","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019s that UN Hariri Tribunal Doing? Not Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UN special tribunal to investigate the murder of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri seemed like a good idea at the time it was established, back in 2005. \u00a0Some folks claimed it vindicated the role of the UN in resolving this kinds of delicate political disputes. \u00a0But the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/opinion\/14young.html?ref=opinion\">opposite<\/a> has turned out to be the case.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Half a decade later, however, the Hariri case has made little progress toward justice. Lately, Syria has reasserted its power in Beirut after years of trying to destabilize a government dominated by its political foes. In December, Saad Hariri, Lebanon\u2019s prime minister and Rafik\u2019s son, met with Syria\u2019s president, Bashar al-Assad, acceding to the reconciliation between his own political sponsor, Saudi Arabia, and Damascus \u2014 making Lebanon less likely to point the finger at Syria for the killing.<\/p>\n<p>But the more significant problem actually lies within the United Nations investigation itself. While it has been upgraded to a<a  title=\"Special tribunal Web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stl-tsl.org\/section\/AbouttheSTL\"> special tribunal,<\/a> sitting near The Hague, it has suffered from questionable leadership, lost key members and last year had to release suspects for lack of formal indictments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if some other international or national mechanism could have done better, but they could scarcely have done worse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/ShbFJfY-70s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku The UN special tribunal to investigate the murder of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri seemed like a good idea at the time it was established, back in 2005. \u00a0Some folks claimed it vindicated the role of the UN in resolving this kinds of delicate political disputes. \u00a0But the opposite has turned out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}