Chief Military Prosecutor Riad Talih has demanded the death penalty for 13 former members of the defunct “Israeli”-allied militia after they were convicted on terrorism, torture and murder charges.
The 13 were among 20 tried on Thursday for enlisting with “Israel’s” proxy militia. Three were given varying sentences with hard labor while proceedings were stopped in the cases of two others who are dead. Talih did not issue sentences for the remaining two, pending further investigation.
The 13 militiamen were found guilty of killing at least seven resistance fighters, dragging another along the ground after tying him to a bulldozer, and arresting a shepherd.
The move came one day after a military court sentenced the brother of former “Israeli”-proxy militia commander Saad Haddad to one year in jail, one of 11 ex-militiamen ordered jailed by a military court for collaborating with “Israel”.
Labib Haddad, 54, also was fined LL 400,000 for his dealings with “Israel” and for entering the Jewish state, the court said.
Haddad’s brother, the late Major Saad Haddad, was the first Lebanese to publicly open contacts with “Israel” in 1976 and became its closest Lebanese ally until his death in 1984.

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