The United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed Lebanon’s decision to bring to justice the man found guilty of killing two UN peacekeepers decades ago.
Deputy UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Monday that Mr. Guterres “took note” of the 22 December verdict by the country’s Permanent Military Court, which convicted and sentenced 76-year-old Mahmoud Bazzi to 15 years in prison for the decades-old kidnapping and killing two UN peacekeepers and causing serious injury to a third.
Mr. Bazzi was handed down a life sentence in prison, which, because of his age, was immediately reduced to 15 years.
Secretary-General @antonioguterres takes note of Mahmoud Bazzi’s conviction by Lebanese court for 1980 kidnapping and killing of two @UN peacekeepers. https://t.co/UovcrA9b4l