Trials of collaborators continue

“The 21st batch of the “Israeli”-allied militiamen to be judged on different charges of collaboration with “Israeli” stood trial at the Military Tribunal on Wednesday.
Eighty men were questioned in the presence of their attorneys and each answered questions pertaining to the circumstances which led to his joining the militia.
Charges included revealing secret information on the army and the resistance to the “Israeli” occupation forces and traveling to an enemy state. Most of the attorneys asked for either clemency or acquittal in their clients’ cases. The sentences had been expected to come out very late on Wednesday.
Earlier this week the court postponed the trial of more than 100 collaborators at the request of their attorneys.
Meanwhile, Chief Investigating Magistrate Riad Talih issued arrest warrants for seven collaborators facing the same charges after interrogating them on Wednesday.
Two similar warrants were issued by investigating magistrate Abdullah Hajj against two other militiamen.
Some 2,200 militiamen have so far turned themselves in to Lebanese authorities.

The Daily Star, 10-8-2000.