BEIRUT — Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that serving justice into the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was the way to stability in Lebanon, reiterating Hizbullah’s rejection of accusations that some of its members was involved in the killing.
“We do not accept abandoning justice for the sake of stability, because by this, we will be almost accepting suspicions [that we are involved],” Nasrallah told an audience via video link during a ceremony.
“We say that stability and justice should be achieved because stability without justice is fragile,” he added.
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, established by the UN to try the alleged assassins of Hariri and a number of politicians, released its indictment last week, with four Hizbullah members named in the sealed indictment.
Nasrallah said that what Hizbullah had so far said about the “corruption” of the STL “is some of what we have,” adding that Hizbullah possessed additional evidence on Israel’s involvement in the killing.
“We have other things that we might announce at anytime, but believe me all [misleading campaigns] will go in vain.”
Hizbullah had discredited the STL and accused Israel of having a hand in Hariri’s killing through a series of documents and videotapes, the last of which were broadcast over the weekend during a speech by Nasrallah.
The Hizbullah leader said that some sides were concealing the assassin of Hariri, which he said was Israel.
“The biggest injustice to Hariri is when some insist that Israel could not have killed Hariri,” he said.
Nasrallah stressed that “the resistance is neither afraid nor confused following the release of the indictment.”
Nasrallah lashed out at the March 14 coalition, saying that it was preventing the serving of justice.
“You are disrupting justice and losing the path to truth. You are defending injustice and you are part of this injustice,” he added.
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