BEIRUT: Taking the stand at the Special Tribunal for LebanonMonday, MP Walid Jumblatt told the court that he was convincedSyria was behind the 1977 assassination of his father.
“It is the Syrian regime that assassinated Kamal Jumblatt,” theProgressive Socialist Party chief told the The Hague-based court. Jumblatt said that he has judicial evidence that supports this conclusion.
Prior to his death, an investigative judge released a report detailing “the car that followed Kamal Jumblatt, how they stepped out of the car, how they killed him, how that car later left to the headquarters of the Syrian intelligence in Sin el-Fil,” Jumblatt told the court.
Just 40 days after the death of his father, Jumblatt traveled to Syria, a decision which he explained in detail. “Based on my conviction that I am an Arab nationalist and based on the threats that were surrounding Lebanon, I had no choice but to go to Syria and to seal a deal, a political settlement, with those who assassinated Kamal Jumblatt,” he said.