Collaborators men face death for murders

Six former “Israeli”-proxy militiamen who gunned down five Hizbullah fighters should receive the death penalty if found guilty, Chief Military Examining Magistrate Riad Talih said on Thursday.
Five of the militiamen confessed before the court that sometime between 1990-1993 they rounded up five Hizbullah members and shot them point blank in a militia position near Shumraieh on the orders of Aql Hashem, the commander of the occupied zone’s western sector who was assassinated by Hizbullah in an ambush in January.
The fatal shooting of the Hizbullah members ignited heavy fighting between the collaborators and the resistance that left one militiamen dead and another, who is now on trial, wounded.
The five detainees are Ibrahim Sayyed, Khodr Bedair, Ahmad Faqih, Hassan Qlait, Hussein Yehia and Hassan Mousa, who is still at large.
The six joined the militia in 1978. The five at the trial proceedings admitted to divulging classified information about the resistance to the “Israeli” secret service until they handed themselves in to Lebanese authorities after the May “Israeli” withdrawal.
The six militiamen, who were operating under the command of Hassan Musa, the head of the militia’s security in Kfar Kila, had bombed the prayer hall in Bzoun and killed its sheikh.
Talih also demanded that another two collaborators involved in the killing be sentenced to up to 15 years with hard labor.

The Daily Star, 28-7-2000.