Hizbullah Says March 14 Trying to Implicate U.N. in 'Rumors, Lies'
Hizbullah said Wednesday that the March 14 general-secretariat “has ignored the statement issued by the U.N., which denied accusing” the party of being involved in Syria’s violence, noting that “this group did not settle for the fabrication of rumors and lies, but also tried to implicate the U.N. and its organizations in them.”
“Hizbullah does not usually comment on the statements issued by the March 14 general-secretariat because the content is repetitive, well-known and boring,” the party said in a communiqué.
“But what caught our attention in the latest statement issued on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 was the clause ‘the general-secretariat noted what the media has quoted the U.N. as saying, which points out to Hizbullah’s role in the crackdown operations in Syria’,” Hizbullah added.
“It seems that the general-secretariat of the March 14 forces is insisting on repeating this claim and deliberately attributing it to the U.N., which implies that this group did not settle for the fabrication of rumors and lies, but also tried to implicate the U.N. and its organizations in them,” the party went on to say.
“Does this insistence mean that certain forces in the March 14 camp had provided Radio France with this report?” Hizbullah wondered.
In a statement issued earlier on Wednesday, the March 14 general-secretariat said the media reports proved “that the party has abandoned the principles that it claims to respect.”
“It is jeopardizing the entire sect it represents because it is linking it to the ongoing massacres against the Syrian people,” the general-secretariat noted.
Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television on Tuesday said a statement allegedly issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had refuted Radio France’s report.
However, in remarks published Wednesday, Kuwaiti daily Al-Anbaa quoted diplomatic sources in the U.N. as saying that “the U.N. Security Council is preparing a report on Hizbullah’s participation in the repression and torture of Syrian civilians and protesters and the killing of Syrian soldiers who had defected over such acts.”
“The report will be rich in details and evidences and it will include photographs and the testimonies of dissident Syrian officers and soldiers,” the sources added.
On Sunday Hizbullah denied Radio France’s report, which accused the party of being involved in the killing of Syrian soldiers who had refused to shoot at anti-regime protesters.
Radio France had reported that a UNHCR committee was planning to release a report on the alleged involvement of Hizbullah and Iran in the killing of Syrian soldiers who had refused to obey orders to shoot at protesters.
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