Analysis and Evaluation of the Constitutive Documents of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

The adoption of Security Council (SC) Resolution 1757(2007) on May 30, 2007 ended months of indecision and confusion as to the status of the proposals to establish a criminal court with an international dimension in Lebanon to try the perpetrators of political killings in the country and, in particular, the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Hariri. The determining event would appear to be the letter sent on May 14, 2007 by Prime Minister Siniora to the U.N. Secretary General saying that his government believed that the time had come for the SC to help make the Tribunal a reality… [more]