Women pray at the site of the grave of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri and his bodyguards in downtown Beirut
Women pray at the site of the grave of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and his bodyguards in downtown Beirut January 15, 2014. Nine years after the assassination of Hariri, the trial of four men accused of his killing opens on Thursday. But the defendants are on the run, bombers are back on Beirut streets and a new era of justice which the trial was meant to introduce to Lebanon remains elusive. Hariri and 21 other people were killed on the Beirut seafront in February 2005, the deadliest of a series of attacks against critics of Syria's military dominance in Lebanon. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
A woman prays at the grave of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in downtown Beirut
A woman prays at the grave of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in downtown Beirut January 15, 2014. Nine years after the assassination of Hariri, the trial of four men accused of his killing opens on Thursday. But the defendants are on the run, bombers are back on Beirut streets and a new era of justice which the trial was meant to introduce to Lebanon remains elusive. Hariri and 21 other people were killed on the Beirut seafront in February 2005, the deadliest of a series of attacks against critics of Syria's military dominance in Lebanon. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
File photo of Lebanon's then-Prime Minister Hariri
Lebanon's then-Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri is seen in this April 13, 2002 file photo. Nine years after the assassination of Hariri, the trial of four men accused of his killing opens on January 16, 2014. But the defendants are on the run, bombers are back on Beirut streets and a new era of justice which the trial was meant to introduce to Lebanon remains elusive. Hariri and 21 other people were killed on the Beirut seafront in February 2005, the deadliest of a series of attacks against critics of Syria's military dominance in Lebanon. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi/Files (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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