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NAME OF MECHANISM

Commission on Disappearances and Abductions (Alternative Process)

 
YEARS OF OPERATION

Started in January 2001 with a 6 month mandate (renewable twice)

 
MANDATE AND OPERATIONS

Mandate: To investigate claims concerning “disappeared” and/or kidnapped victims whose families had reason to believe that their relatives were still alive.

Staff: Headed by the Minister of Home Affairs; including the country’s Attorney General, members of the security forces and members named by the Beirut and Tripoli Bar Associations.

Results: No final report was published.

LATEST UPDATE

January 2008: This was not the first institution created by the Lebanese Government to investigate cases of disappearances, but the committees set up during the civil war (in 1984, 1985 and 1987) were purely investigative. They did not have the power to act on the information they uncovered.

More recently, the UN created the International Independent Investigation Commission to investigate the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 19 others, in February 2005. The Commission was in operation from June - October 2005 and concluded that the assassination had been carried out by an extensive and highly organised organisation, probably with both Lebanese and Syrian involvement. The Commission recommended that the investigation be continued by Lebanese authorities.

 

 
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