Human Rights activists called for an international investigation of hundreds of Lebanese whose disappearance they blame on Syria whose forces were dominant in Lebanon between 1976 and 2005.
"The question of the Lebanese prisoners held in Syria will only be resolved by an international commission of inquiry," said Ghazi Aad who heads SOLIDE, a non-governmental organization for the 640 people listed as missing.
Aad, at a sit-in organized outside U.N. offices in Beirut, charged Lebanese authorities had failed to act on the issue since the April 2005 withdrawal of Syrian troops, first deployed in Beirut a year after the outbreak of civil war.
"We criticized the government for handing responsibility for this question to a Lebanese-Syrian commission. Our criticism has been justified because the commission has not come up with any result two and half years on," he said.
Aad said an international probe was the only way forward since Syria considers that the issue has been resolved since its December 2000 release of 54 Lebanese.(AFP)
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