MP Hariri: We Will Not Relinquish our Right to Find out Whole Truth in Sidon Clashes
Mustaqbal MP Bahia Hariri stressed on Saturday the people's right to turn to the judiciary in order to apprehend assailants involved in the recent clashes in the southern city of Sidon.
She declared from the northern city of Tripoli: “We will not relinquish our right to find out the whole truth in the unrest.”
The assailants, regardless of their affiliations, will be pursued, she stated.
“We will resort to the judiciary whenever the people sense that they have been humiliated under the state's supervision,” she added.
“We will not allow the state to abandon its responsibilities towards the people,” Hariri continued.
Eighteen soldiers were killed and 50 wounded in clashes between the army and supporters of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir in Sidon on June 22 and 23.
More than 20 of al-Asir's supporters were killed, according to a security official.
Dozens of them were also arrested, but there was no sign of the cleric.
A number of officials and eyewitnesses had claimed that Hizbullah fighters were involved in the clashes.
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