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

1 Response to “Romeo Dallaire upraids US and Canada over Omar Kadr”


  1. 1 Anthony Hall July 15, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Terrible pictures were published in Canada today showing how Canadian officials psychologically assaulted the 16 year Khadr in Gitmo. The “trail” of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Gitmo as the “mastermind” of 911 is a terrible farce. Terrible to conceive that a fascist trend is well advanced in North America and the voice of public outage is somehow muted. At least the good folks of Chester County are trying to do something. Keep it up. Thanks for doing what you do.


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