(Al-Jazeera) The trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members accused of murdering former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 has begun at a UN-backed tribunal at The Hague.
Nine years after a huge car bombing killed billionaire Hariri and 22 others in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and three years into Syria’s own bloody civil war, the trial started on Thursday for four Hezbollah suspects accused of plotting the assassination.
Hariri’s son, Saad – like his late father, also a former prime minister – was in the courtroom for the start of the trial along with family members of other victims of the February 14, 2005, blast.
