United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission

The International Independent Investigation Commission of the United Nations ( United Nations International Independent Investigation english Commission, UNIIIC ) was founded by Resolution 1595 of the UN Security Council in April 2005 Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al -Hariri on 14 February 2005. , you followed the " fact-finding mission" under the direction of the Irish Peter FitzGerald, which had led to FitzGerald report.

Its first chairman was the German jurist Detlev Mehlis, who presented the so-called Mehlis report in October 2005. He was succeeded in January 2006, the Belgian Serge Brammertz. As of November 2007, the Canadian Daniel Bellemare followed him. This was the same in 2007 Prosecutor of the newly established Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL ).

On 28 February 2009, the UNIIIC ceased its operations after eleven reports had been prepared.