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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
La ONU aplaude la condena en Líbano contra un antiguo miliciano por el asesinato de dos cascos azules en 1980
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Two Irish soldiers who were murdered while serving in Lebanon have ‘finally got justice after 40 years’
Ann Mooney
23 Dec 2020, 7:00
THE families of two Irish soldiers, who were murdered while serving in the Lebanon yesterday said they’ve finally got justice after 40 years.
Privates Thomas Barrett, 29, from Macroom, Co Cork, and Derek Smallhorne, 31, from Bluebell, Dublin, were abducted and killed while on United Nations Peacekeeping duties in April 1980.
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They were captured by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army in a car and their bodies were found hours later.
Both had been shot dead at point blank range.
Conviction of man who murdered two Irish soldiers in 1980
Long running trial over Lebanon killings
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The Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney, has been notified of the conviction by a Lebanese Military Tribunal of the perpetrator of the murder of two Irish soldiers in Lebanon in 1980.
On April 18, 1980, Private Thomas Barrett and Private Derek Smallhorne were murdered and one soldier, Private John O’Mahony was seriously injured in the same incident in Lebanon. The personnel were serving as peacekeepers with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
At the village of At-Tiri, a convoy, which included the three Irish soldiers, was stopped and all the personnel were taken prisoner by de-facto forces. The Defence Forces personnel were disarmed and separated from the rest of the group. Private O’Mahony was shot and seriously injured while Privates Barrett and Smallhorne were murdered.