Archive for May 14th, 2008

Romeo Dallaire upraids US and Canada over Omar Kadr

If you saw the movie Hotel Rwanda, you might remember the Canadian general in charge of the UN peacekeeping troops who was so terribly afflicted because he was unable to stop the killing. After recovering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, Gen. Romeo Dallaire went on to become Canada’s special embassador to the UN for children.

Canada and the United States have sunk to the moral equivalent of terrorists in their handling of a young Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay, says Liberal senator and ex-general Romeo Dallaire.

Dallaire says the two countries have flouted human rights and international conventions in dealing with Omar Khadr and are no better than those who don’t believe in rights at all.

Canada should be bending over backward to bring him home, said Dallaire…

from

http://freedetainees.org/790


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