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The commission received 780 inquiry requests from the families of the missing, but it never published its findings [AI | 2011]. The commission stated that there was evidence that 97 missing people were being held in Syria, but the Lebanese government never undertook any action to investigate the fate of these individuals
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PROCESSES
Lebanon: (Alternative) Commission of Investigation into the Fate of the Abducted and Disappeared Persons
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NAME OF MECHANISM
(Alternative) Commission of Investigation into the Fate of the Abducted and Disappeared Persons
PERIOD OF OPERATION
January 2001 – July 2002.
MANDATE AND OPERATIONS
Mandate: The Commission of Investigation was established by Decree No. 1/2001, signed by Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. It was mandated to determine the fates of those who disappeared during the Lebanese civil war. The mandate only covered cases where there was evidence that the missing might still be alive [AI | 2011]. The commission was “not mandated to review the conclusions reached by the previous commission nor to re-open the dossier of the disappeared and the missing” [Lebanese Centre for Human Rights | 2008].
Staff: Chaired by Minister of State for Administrative Reform Fouad Saad [Lebanese Centre for Human Rights | 2008].
RESULTS
The commission received 780 inquiry requests from the families of the missing, but it never published its findings [AI | 2011]. The commission stated that there was evidence that 97 missing people were being held in Syria, but the Lebanese government never undertook any action to investigate the fate of these individuals [Lebanese Centre for Human Rights | 2008].
BACKGROUND
The Commission of Investigation into the Fate of the Abducted and Disappeared Persons was not the first institution created by the Lebanese government to investigate disappearances, but the committees set up during the civil war (in 1984, 1985 and 1987) were purely investigative and had no power to act on the information they uncovered. The earlier commissions of inquiry never published their reports.
In 1991, after the civil war had ended, the government passed an amnesty law relating to crimes committed during the civil war, including abduction and hostage taking [AI | 2011]. In 1995, it passed a law that established procedures for declaring missing people legally dead. This law was heavily criticised by families of missing persons for its “failure to provide for any investigation or holding those responsible to account” [AI | 2000].
SOURCES
[Amnesty International | 2000]
[Amnesty International | 2011]
[Amnesty International | 2011]