Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 18:43
'Child soldier' Khadr needs protection
If Canada doesn't act to protect human rights in the case of Omar
Khadr, the country is no better than terrorists, Liberal Senator Romeo
Dallaire told a parliamentary subcommittee Tuesday.
The former general, one of the most high-profile personalities to speak
out in favour of bringing the detained Canadian home from Guantanamo
Bay, told MPs that Mr. Khadr is a victim, a child soldier who should be
rehabilitated and re-integrated into society and not tried before what
he calls an illegal court.
Mr. Dallaire, whose troubling experiences during the 1994 Rwanda
genocide helped make him an outspoken advocate of human rights, said
the Khadr case points out a moral equivalence among Canada, the United
States and al-Qaeda.
Submitted by fighting on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 22:39
Canada debates Afghanistan troops
A debate has begun in the Canadian parliament in Ottawa on the future of the country's troops in Afghanistan.
Since 2002 there have been 2,500 Canadian troops stationed in the volatile southern part of the country.
Seventy-eight Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have been killed, which has divided public opinion back home.
Canada's minority Conservative government wants to
extend the mission beyond its current deadline of early 2009 to the end
of 2011.
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